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pubescentibus ; stylis purpureis saepe pubescentibus, cum filamentis 

 aequilongis ; ovariis glabris prope ad apicem connatis : baccis globosis, 

 bioculatis i. 0-1.4 cm. crassis, sucidis, rubris, plerumque glaucis ; 

 seminibus 3-4 mm. longis, laevibus, lucidis, ochraceis plerumque plus 

 minusve oblongo-lenticularibus. 



A slender erect shrub 1.5-3.5 m. high : bark glabrous, gray : young 

 twigs purplish : leaves oblanceolate to obovate, or rarely oval, thickish, 

 margins revolute, glabrous on both sides, above light green, nerves 

 sunken, below pale, glaucous, sharply reticulated ; apex somewhat 

 acute to retuse, usually mucronate ; base gradually narrowed into a very 

 short (1 mm. long) margined petiole, or sessile: flowers 1.2— 1.8 cm. 

 long, paired at the apexes of slender axillary peduncles 2-3.2 cm. 

 long; bracts and lobes of the calyx usually wholly obsolete ; corolla 

 yellow, purplish tinged outside, purple inside, gibbous at the base, 

 glabrous or rarely slightly pubescent at the base, two-lipped to the 

 middle or usually below, lobes broadly obtuse ; stamens slightly 

 exserted, filaments purple, pubescent toward the base ; style purple, 

 often pubescent, same length as filaments ; ovaries glabrous, united 

 almost to the top : berries spherical, two-eyed, 1. 0-1.4 cm. in diam- 

 eter, juicy, red, usually glaucous; seeds 3-4 mm. long, smooth, shin- 

 ing, ochraceous, usually more or less oblong-lenticular. 



The type specimens, now in the Pennsylvania Herbarium of the Car- 

 negie Museum, were collected by the writer about one mile southeast of 

 Linesville, Crawford County, Pennsylvania, in the Pymatuning Swamp. 

 Specimens were collected in full bloom June 7, 1904, with ripe fruit, 

 August 19, 1904, and again June 13, 1905, shortly after the bloom 

 had fallen. The plants were growing in a water-soaked soil partly 

 covered with Sphagnum and were associated with Rhus vernix Lin- 

 naeus, Alnus incana (Linnaeus) Willdenow, Ilicioides mucronata (Lin- 

 naeus) Britton, Spathye?na fcetida (Linnaeus) Rafinesque, Sarracenia 

 purpurea Linnaeus, etc., the whole constituting an ecological forma- 

 tion probably transitional to the typical Taika rack- Sphagnum bog 

 formation. 



The specific name, altissima, has been given this plant because of 

 its tall, slender habit. Many of the shrubs were over ten feet in height, 

 a height probably not attained by any other shrubby Loniceras of 

 northeastern North America. 



Specimens closely approaching the type specimens of Lonicera altis- 

 sima were seen by the writer, as follows : Swamps, Courtland, On- 



