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weed," like other species of the genus, and its perfoHate leaves 

 remain stiffly erect on the spreading branches for several months 

 after the plant dies, so that it is easily recognized .any day in 

 the year.* 



On Feb. lo, 1915, I found several dead plants indistinguishable 

 from this species in high pine land (dry pine-barrens with Pimis 

 palustris and Quercus Cateshaei) in the extreme eastern part of 

 the lake region of Florida, about half a mile northwest of Chulu- 

 ota, Seminole County, which is about 220 miles farther south 

 than the nearest known locality in Georgia. I was on a cross- 

 country walking trip at the time, with over thirty pounds of 

 baggage, and could not very well preserve such brittle material 

 for comparison. It is not altogether improbable that when 

 the flowers and fruit of this Florida plant are known it may be 

 found to differ in some particulars from B. perfoliata; but whether 

 it is that species or an undescribed one, it is something new to 

 the known flora of Florida. 



Roland M. Harper 



The northwestern cytherea. I have just had an oppor- 

 tunity to examiine good living material of Cytherea, col- 

 lected by Mr. A. L. Knoke at Duvall, in the State of 

 Washington. It differs in many ways from the Colorado 

 plant, t being larger, with the following floral peculiarities: 

 Sepals and petals whitish, flushed with pink, about 27 mm. 

 long; column 7.5 mm. wide; lip 21 mm. long, 9.5 broad near 

 base, the basal half dark dull red, with longitudinal, more or 

 less interrupted, whitish lines; at the end of opening of lip the 

 patches and hairs are wholly pallid, neither yellow nor red; 

 apical part of lip widely expanded, thin, covered with large 

 suffused pale rust-red spots, the color completely contrasting 

 with the small pink spots on margins of opening; horn-like 

 nectar-sacs divergent, pinkish -white, with irregular dull pinkish 

 longitudinal bands; these horns may extend beyond the lip. 



This is presumably the plant which Holzinger described from 



* For notes on its morphological peculiarities see Jour. Bot. lo: 84-85. 1872; 

 Bull. Torrey Club 30: 336-337. 1903; Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci. 17: 225. 1906. 

 t Botanical Gazette 59 (1915), p. 331. 



