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Flowers 0.87 inch broad, petals narrow, one half as wide as long. 

 Fruit small, globose, black, little matuiing. Flowers before the 

 middle of June, fruits early in August. 



Type station in the southeastern part of Westminster, Vt., in 

 the mowing and pasture surrounding the house of Geo. N. Banks. 

 In diy or rich places, open ground. 



I have known this plant since 1901 and have watched it closely. 

 It seems to be a distinct species, but I do not know how widely 

 it is spread. The detailed description gives it very little in 

 common with Rubiis liispidus L. and it is much earlier, blossom- 

 ing two weeks before that species, when growing side by side. 

 " Westminster, Vermont. 



SHORTER NOTES 



Galactia Odonia Griseb. — In his monograph of the West 

 Indian Galactias, published in the second volume of " Symbolae 

 Antillanae," Professor Urban states (p. 334) that he has not 

 seen this species, no specimen being found in the herbaria of 

 Gottingen, Kew, Cambridge or the British Museum ; he there- 

 fore makes no disposition of it. A specimen is preserved, how- 

 ever, in the Columbia University herbarium, coming there in the 

 collections of Professor Meisner, of Basle, presented by Mr. John 

 J. Crooke ; it is a type or cotype, bearing the number 864 of the 

 collector, Rugel, who obtained it in western Cuba, and it enables 

 me to reduce the species to the Cuban and Bahamian Galactia 

 rudolpJiioidcs (Griseb.) Benth. & Hook., the earlier specific name. 



N. L. Brittox. 



A NEW SOUTHERN' CONVOLVULUS. — It is generally Understood 

 that Convolvulus Sepiuni L. is an introduced species in America, 

 and that in C. aiiicricanus (Sims) Greene, we have a closely re- 

 lated but indigenous species. C. repens L. of the southern states 

 exhibits variations which, when they are better known, may be 

 recognized as species. The species described below shows rela- 

 tionship toward both Convohndus auicricanus and C. repens, but 

 is so distinct from either in the character of its indument that I 

 venture to describe it as new. 



