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petiole but very slightly decurrcnt, the plant of the 

 Upsala Garden would appear to have been the species 

 now considered. 

 Scrophnlaria lanceolata Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 2: 419. 1814. 

 "In wet meadows and woods: Pennsylvania." Descrip- 

 tion apparently of this. The type of this should be veri- 

 fied, but the description of the petioles as not ciliate, and 

 the lateness of the time of flowering would indicate that 

 Pursh described as new the original marilandica. 

 Scrophnlaria nodosa marilandica (L.) A. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. 



Am. 2. 1:258. 1878. 

 Scrophularia nodosa lanceolata (Pursh) M. E. Jones, Contrib. 

 West. Bot. 12:67. 1908. 

 Flowering from late July to late September, fruiting from 

 early August into October. 



Open woodland, loam, in potassic soil, frequent or northward 

 rare through the area above the Fall-line; occasional in western 

 Long Island, and near the Delaware River in the Middle District 

 of New Jersey. Ranges from Massachusetts and southern On- 

 tario to Georgia, Arkansas and Nebraska. 



(To be continued.) 



TUMION TAXIFOLIUM IN GEORGIA 



By Roland M. Harper 



The Florida "savin" or "stinking cedar," Tumion taxifolium 

 (Am.) Greene (Torreya taxifolia Am.) an evergreen tree closely 

 related to the yews, ever since its discovery by H. B. Groom 

 near Aspalaga in western Middle Florida about 85 years ago, 

 has been celebrated in botanical circles on account of its very 

 restricted distribution and its belonging to a genus which was 

 widespread in pre-historic times but is now practically confined 

 to Florida, California, China and Japan.* 



* Existing knowledge about this tree is pretty well summed up in the following 

 works: Asa Gray, Am. Agriculturist 34: 266-267. 1875 (reprinted with some 

 alterations in "Scientific Papers of Asa Gray," i: 188-196. 1889); A. H. Curtiss, 

 Tenth Census U. S. 9: 521. 1884; A. W. Chapman, Bot. Gaz. 10: 251-254. 

 1885; G. V. Nash, Bull. Torrey Club 23: 96. 1896; H. C. Cowles, Rep. 8th 



