168 I.EAFLETS. 



Having drawn up this diagnosis, I open a pocket attached 

 to the sheet containing the specimen, and find within it the 

 proof that Mr. Dodge ten years ago, when he sent the speci- 

 men to the U. S. Herb, for a name, was not content to have 

 it called, as it had been, A. pubescens. His pencil note of 

 protest against such an ' ' identification ' ' reads : ' ' This was 

 identified last year as Apocynum pubescens R. Br. I should 

 like to have this reconsidered. If necessary I will furnish a 

 whole plant, fruit and all-. It did not seem to me the name 

 was right. Collected along the road, where it is wet in 

 spring and fall, and very dry in summer." 



Apocynum Farwelui. A yard high, very stout, only 

 sparingly branched, and that only far above the middle, the 

 main stem glabrous and glaucous up to near the middle, above 

 that, as also the branches, hirsutulous ; cauline leaves 3 to 4 

 inches long, broadly oblong, cordate at base and sessile, only 

 cuspidate-mucronate at apex, not acute ; the rameal not so 

 very much smaller, but elliptic and short -petiolate, all glab- 

 rous or nearly so above, sparsely fuscous-pubescent beneath : 

 inflorescences few, and much as in yi. Sarniense as to size and 

 location, but flowers of the smallest ; sepals lanceolate, acum- 

 inate, almost equalling the corolla, this short-cylindric, its 

 lobes deltoid, acute. 



Collected near Detroit, Michigan, 7 July, 1893, by O. A. 

 Farwell, and distributed for A. pubescens, also again 30 June, 

 1899, in less pubescent, indeed almost glabrous state, and sent 

 out without specific name. 



Apocynum Bebbianum. Main stem and height of plant not 

 certainly known, the flowering branches densely leafy with a 

 firm broadly elliptic foliage 1/^ to 2 inches long, cuspidately 

 mucronate, conspicuously veiny and on both faces tomentose, 

 but as to the upper more sparingly so, and more along the 

 veins than on the surface in general : cymes small and few- 

 flowered, not equalling their subtending leaves, the branches 



