VAEIOUS NEW SPECIES. 181 



aim of the middle Atlantic slope, but taller, with longer, nar- 

 rower and ascending rather than spreading foliage, a longer and 

 more fastigiately branched corymb, etc. 



PoLTGONATUM ViEGiNiCUM. Stem stoutish, 3 feet high, 

 notably striate : leaves elliptical, about 4 inches long and 3 in 

 width, neither acuminate nor even acute, the short tip very ob- 

 tuse, glabrous throughout, glaucous beneath, above of a dark 

 rich green and marked conspicuously by about 17 slender par- 

 allel nerves, of which 8 nearly equal the midvein in prominence, 

 the alternating ones less prominent : peduncles 2-flo\vered, rather 

 short, ascending, the pedicels subequal : perianth tubular, 7 

 lines long. 



Bluffs of Holston Eiver, southeastern Virginia, May, 1892, 

 John K. Small ; type in U. S. Herb., labelled P commutatum 

 like that species in size, but in size only, being a true ally of 

 P. bifloruvi. 



PoLTGOifATUM CUNEATUM. Stem rather slender, li feet high, 

 the naked lower portion finely striate : leaves narrowly cuneate- 

 elliptic, elongated, stout, 5 inches long, IJ in width, acuminate, 

 tapering somewhat cuneately at base to a short petiole, glaucous 

 beneath and sparsely and minutely pubescent with very slender 

 yet obviously acute hairs, dark green and glabrous above, both 

 faces pervaded by 9 to 11 nerves of which the midvein alone is 

 very conspicuous, 3 laterals less so, the others faint : peduncles 

 filiform in flower and pendulous, the lower 2-flowered, the upper 

 1-flowered : perianth small, 4 lines long, whitish as to the tube : 

 berries small. 



In forests of sugar-maple on the northern peninsula of Mich- 

 igan, near Turin, Marquette Co., 31 May, 1901, Bronson Barlow ; 

 type in U. S. Herb., sheet 416,083 ; beautifully marked by the 

 distinctly cuneate-based long foliage. 



PoLYGONATUM BOREALB. More than a foot high, nearly 

 upright, rather slender, the leafy portion of the stem shorter 

 than the striate naked basal part: leaves large for the plant, 

 elongated-elliptic, 4 inches long, IJ in width, glaucous beneath 

 and loosely pubescent with very fine more or less curled and 

 appressed hairs of equal thickness from end to end, above pale 

 and glaucescent but glabrous, the manifest nerves 5 to 7, but 



