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Vaccinium Caesariense sp. nov. 



A shrub, 1-3 m. high similar in habit to V. corymbosum L. and 

 V. atrococcum (A. Gray) Heller; much branched, the twigs green, 

 warty, entirely glabrous. Leaf-blades ovate to elliptic-lanceo- 

 late, 4-7 cm. long, 1.5-2 cm. wide, entire, glabrous from the first, 

 much paler beneath, short-pointed, round-tapering at base, 

 half-grown at flowering time, the petioles 1-2 mm. long; flowers 

 in short 6-12 flowered racemes, the ascending or spreading pedi- 

 cels about equalling the corolla; bracts ovate-oblong, deciduous; 

 calyx 5-lobed, glaucous, its broad lobes acute; corolla urn-shaped 

 dull-white, 4-6 mm. long, 3-4 mm. wide, one to two times as long 

 as thick, 5-toothed, the acute teeth erect or spreading; stamens 

 10 with hairy filaments; style slightly exceeding corolla; berries 

 dark blue with a bloom, 6-8 mm. in diameter. 



The following specimens, all from New Jersey, have been 

 examined : 



Tom's River, Mackenzie No. 2583, May 30, 1907, and No. 2780, 

 July 28, 1907, same bush (type in Herb. K. K. Mackenzie; 

 duplicates will be deposited in Herb. N. Y. Botanical Garden and 

 Gray Herbarium) ; Lakehurst, Mackenzie Nos. 4544 and 4547, 

 May 15, 1910; Tom's River, Britton & Wilson, June 30, 1900. 



SHORTER NOTES 



A Mountain Anychiastrum. When I described the genus 

 Anychiastrum three species were known. These had been in- 

 cluded in the two genera Anychia and Paronychia, and ranged 

 through the coastal region of the Southern States, extending 

 from North Carolina to Florida on the Atlantic side and from 

 Florida to Louisiana on the Gulf side. I was considerably sur- 

 prised, while studying the genus Anychia several years ago, to 

 find specimens of an Anychiastrum mixed with those of Anychia 

 dichotoma. The species may be described as follows: 



Anychiastrum montanum sp. nov. 



Plants annual or biennial, minutely pubescent. Stem branched 

 at the base, the branches diffusely spreading, 0.5-2 dm. long, very 

 slender, often wire-like, purplish, dichotomous: leaves numer- 

 ous; blades spatulate to elliptic-spatulate, 4-1 1 mm. long, acute 



