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shining, with nerves and veins prominent above the surface. Scapes one- 

 flowered, equalling the leaves in length, bracts ovate, acuminate, corolla 

 (unknown), style slender, falling off in fruit.— Bull. Acad. St. Petersb. 

 xii. (1868) col. 71. 



Shortia (Torr. ft Gray). 



S. (jalacifolia Torr. & Gray, at the place cited. Leaves rounded, 

 somewhat heart-shaped, retuse, crenate- serrate, the crenatures mucronate. 

 In the mountains of Carolina (Michaux), according to Torrey and Gray. 

 Only one specimen known. 



.S'. uniflora, my species, in the place cited under Schizocodon. 

 Leaves heart-shaped, broader than long, sinuate-dentate, the teeth 

 apiculate, very strongly retuse at the apex. 



Fki. 2. — Shohtia unifloka. 



In the alpine woods in Northern Nippon, and among rocks in the 

 highest alps of Central Nippon (Tschonoski). 

 More than thirty specimens collected. 



The Japanese figure quoted shows rounded leaves, sometimes 

 attenuated into a wedge-shaped petiole, sometimes, more rarely, slightly 

 subcordate, mucronate -serrate, seldom or never retuse ; it therefore agrees 

 better with the former, though it still seems to differ from the latter. 

 Corolla nearly an inch long, pale rose colour with white veins. Stamens 

 white. (Maximowicz in Bull. Acad. St. Petersb. xvi. (1871) 225.) 



Six years ago I purchased from the Guildford Hardy Plant Company 

 two plants, much alike in size, that depicted being planted in a pocket 

 on the south side of my rock garden in peat, and the other on the north 



