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Some three years ago quantities of a species of a Monotropsis 

 which had not been noticed in any flora were found by Miss E. 

 A. Lehman, on the Blue Ridge 17 miles from Elkin, N. C. 

 Miss Lehman consulted various botanical experts, but none had 

 ever seen it ; and the general impression appeared to be that it 

 was a late-blooming form of Monotj'opsis odorata or Schzucin- 

 itsia, which was named in the honor of the Salem botanist and 

 mycologist. This could not be correct, for Rev. Lewis D. de 

 Schweinitz's record described the Scliivcinitzia in the following 

 words "very rare — blooming early in February or March, color 

 pink and white, very fragrant like the violet." 



]/ Monotropsis Lehmanae sp. nov. 



Stems not more than 6-8 cm. high, color brownish-purple 

 with occasional pink, succulent, glabrous ; scales several, ovate, 

 more numerous at the base of the scape ; flowers odorless, 

 clustered, 6-8, more or less nodding, pinkish and tinged with 

 white ; calyx subtended by 2—3 bracts, slightly toothed, upper 

 bract ovate, acute and much larger than the one or two lower 

 ones ; sepals oblong-lanceolate, acute, sometimes notched or 

 toothed at the base; corolla saccate, lobes 5 -cleft, inflexed, 

 whitish at the base, about one-half the length of the sepals or a 

 little more; stamens 10, filaments glabrous; disk 10—12 crenate ; 

 ovary globose, 5 -celled; style short ; stigma 5-angled. 



The plants were found in dark shady rhododendron thickets 

 at Roaring Gap in the Blue Ridge Mountains. 



The plant is morphologically different from the sweet pine- 

 sap, as the campanulate corolla is but half the length of the 

 sepals, and the lobes are more deeply divided. The color of 

 the plant is different ; and the flowers, which are scentless, never 

 appear until about the 20th of September or later. This interest- 

 ing plant is named in honor of the discoverer. Miss E. A. Leh- 

 man, of Winston-Salem, who has furnished notes on the species 

 and deposited specimens in the herbarium of the New York State 

 Museum. Stewart H. Burnham. 



Albany, N. Y. 



A NEW DWARF BLACKBERRY. — This blackberry, which grows 

 at a good altitude, is one of the most interesting and distinct that 



