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of Anychia — an extreme end of the genus, so to speak. This 

 new species may be named, for the discoverer, Lawrence William 

 Nuttail, and described, as follows: 



Anychia Nuttalli Small, sp. nov. Annual, 7-23 cm. tall, 

 stem erect, usually simple below, dichotomously corymbose 

 above and often with some short lateral branches, closely pu- 

 bescent with short recurved hairs, brown, nodes swollen: stipules 

 scarious, lanceolate, 2-3 mm. long, acuminate: leaves opposite, 

 early turning brown; blades linear-elliptic to linear and often 

 slightly-broadened upward, 0.5-1.5 cm. long, mostly acute, 

 ciliate, otherwise glabrous, at least on their upper side, nearly 

 sessile: hypanthium very short: calyx short-petioled, yellowish- 

 green 1.5-2 mm. long; sepals narrowly elliptic, 3-veined, narrowly 

 scarious-margined, hooded at the apex, but terminating in a short 

 spine-like cusp, which extends beyond the hood: stamens about 

 half as long as the sepal-bodies; filaments subulate; anthers 

 didymous, much shorter than the filaments: style very short; 

 stigmas about as long as the style : utricle lenticular, suborbicular, 

 about I mm. in diameter, somewhat flattened at the top: seed 

 yellow lenticular, less than i mm. in diameter. — Blue Ridge 

 Summit, Adams County, Pennsylvania. 



About the middle of August the writer received specimens of, 

 an odd-looking forked-chickenweed from Mr. Lawrence W. 

 Nuttail, which he had just collected in the mountains of southern 

 Pennsylvania. In answer to a request for more specimens 

 Mr. Nuttail wrote: 



"I am sending you more specimens of the plant as requested 

 in your letter of the 25th. The plant grows in an old field, 

 stony and weed grown, but apparently cultivated within the 

 last few years. 



"The plant grows in association with orange-grass, clammy- 

 cuphea, pennyroyal, etc. The field slopes toward the south, and 

 I could not find it in a similar field next to it but facing the 

 north. 



"It is scattered about all over the field, though the largest 

 specimens were found this morning [August 26th] at the east end 

 of the field where they are protected from the early morning 

 sun. These I sent." 



The species just described differs from Anychia dichotomia in 



