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Oct. 3 (Nov. 1, Friday). Continued Daemon Collection through Convulvaceae. The Vinaceae are especially poorly named, all sorts of determinations appearing for V. Conspecta. Nov. 2 (Saturday). Resumed work on Tennessee (1930) collections. The specimen of Sericocarpus linopliius from the mountains of the South seems as a rule much more widely branched, and with slenderer involucres than in the north, but the variation appears in some isolated and is probably not sufficiently constant for maintaining a distinct variety. Looked over Hildreth's account of the White Mts. (Torrey, 1934). It does not seem to be very exact in determination of species, nor very discriminating. Nov. 3 (Sunday) Walked to Prospect Park & Bot. Gard. Nov. 4 (Monday). Named up Polygala in herbarium. The southern phase of P. Cruceata = var. Transsion Nash is certainly not distinct as a species, it has less compact growth, brighter flowers and longer acuminate petals than the northern plants. The material named by me (Tenn) as P. mariana is P. Curtisii. The persistent bracts would appear to be a good characteristic. Nov. 5 (Tuesday: Election Day, Walked to Manhattan Beach): Auburnia Californica The only thing of interest. Nov. 6 (Wednesday). Sent Gratula to Kemell and 3 sheets of Scleria (Tenn) to Cure. Scleria paniculata and S. Elliottii do not seem well characterized in Small's Manual. The size of achene is too divergent variable. Procerumace spectinata is the source of much trouble. Sweet's original diagnosis and illustration are not worth much. Our knowledge of the species comes through Piret, Elliott,
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9 Nov 10 (Sunday) - With J. L. Edwards. To N.J. with Edward. Visited the interesting bog on Bearpt Mt, with Lais, Eicea mariana, Chisgenes; Vaccinium macrocarpum and Oxyecous. Lycepodium (L. camp. var. flebipont, L. tristachyum, L. absolum var. cendricum, and L. elevatum) are all abundant. The swamps contain great quantities of Thelypterus spinulosus and var. veter media growing interspersed. Also visits the cliffs on th. Ranunculus leviculis (new to me) abundant in old brooks. Visited also the cliffs on the Green Pt. road. These have Calamin Bradleyi (new to me), Bellonia (new to me), Pellaea sturpifera, and on the Palm slopes, great increases of Thelypterus marginalis and T. spinulosus v. intermedia growing together. Nov 14 (Thursday) To Garden at Noon. Worked on Helianthus. I believe that there are good characters in the flowers - Lickerts little attention has been paid. These characters are: 1) rigidity of corolla lobes, resulting in erect or reflexed lobes, 2) color of lobes, 3) pubescence of lobes, 4) protrusion of anthers, 5) color, pubescence of anther tips 6) elevation of anther tube. The various species examined showed constant dif- fences in these respects. Nov 12 (Tuesday) Continued Helianthus. Anderson's estimate of Matsud does not seem very high. (See Rhodora article on H. atrorubescens). Watson has entirely omitted H. polyphyllus Small from his treatment. This species came from the granitic region of W. Georgia. I believe the fern material which I placed under this name is H. angustifolius, from which H. poly-
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Phyllus is probably not distinct. A survey of Watson, Gray Syn. H., Tovey + Gray, seem to show that H. hirsutus and H. divaricatus are close together. The descriptions are poor in contrasting these two species if they actually are distinct species. Eupatorium sessilifolium, collected at Bull Run, Tenn, is the typical material, apparently a # one of its southern outposts. Nov. 13 (Wednesday). The Tullehoma area seems to be a center for Siephium. S. brachiatum Guthrie - known only from Cowan - is apparently confined to this area. It is a close relative of S. perfoliatum. The commonest species, to judge from herbarium specimens, is S. trifoliatum and to this species I believe that the opposite-leaved plant collected by me in 1930 at Grand Jct., belongs, and not to the hairy S. intrepidulum of the Great Plains. S. Mohrie was correctly named by me from Tullehoma, judging from the illustration in Mohr, and the peculiar pubescence seems rocky areas characteristic. Material from Bull Run, resembling S. scaberrimum is certainly S. Gatesii, and the material from damp shady places at Bull Run is characteristic S. trifoliatum, such as is seen from the Potomac region. Apparently a new variety of Zizia aurea from damp banks at Bull Run, differing from typical material in having pubescent lower surfaces of the leaves. Dissected and material of woodsia scopulina for Miss Curdy. The indusium is not like that of W. mexicana, but the outline of the pinnae appears decidedly different.
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Galium triflorum from Bull Run has glabrous stems except at the angles and long filiform pedicels, in these respects dif- fèrent from the hairy short pedicelled plants of the coastal plain. G. triflorum from the same locality has short leaves, usually brittle, peduncles above, but with no prickles on the stems. The roots from northern New York and the west have large leaves and stems usually scabrous. Stebbins writes that the Sedum collected at Delphi, Ind. and Forked River, N.J. is probably L. Morssii, not L. hirauta. Nov. 20 (Wednesday) Blephilia hirta from Bull Run is characterized by leaf-blades which are a little scabrous on the upper surface, and only on the mid-vein beneath. This is in contrast to the hirta character described, and ap- parent in all other specimens examined. The lower leaf surface is thickly set with glands. Pycnanthemum incanum from Bull Run has deltoid calyx teeth without any stripee apical trichomes. This character I have seen only in two Arkansas collections. Possibly one of Small's species is represented. Received letters from Cord & Colesia. All material from Tennessee is apparently S. paniculata. Received two articles from Lower on Chilean plants. Nov. 21 (Thursday) Sabatia tractiata and S. compacta both at Jullahoma; the former in dry sandy soil, the latter in wet greasy areas with Xyris. Cyperus flarescens also found at Jullahoma. The Manchester barrens are perhaps just as interesting as those at Julla- homa. Both lie on the Highland Rim, at ap-
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18 Then the sepal's. The sepals are not firmly united as in the northern S. lanceolata, but Walter's type has not been recently examined and the identity is not settled. Castanopsis famula: There is also C. maxima Ell. to be looked out for (qf Kearney, Bull. Tor. Cl., xxiv.) and the Florida C. alnifolia, but Underwood's specimens appear to be C. famula. Continue description and note on E. tubulosa, and desc. of E. modulos. Jan 9 (Thursday) Continue synonymy (etc.) of E. modulos. Photographs of Brunelia lycioides, Amianthium densum, arrived from Paris. As expected A. densum is A. augustifolium. Stocked over some 4 carton case of grasses. Pyrenatherum [illegible] Underwood. Jan 10 (Friday) Description + synonymy of E. geniculata. Continued Underwood's specimens: Neuchera willissa is one of common species in the South; collected by me at Benton + Ind. ferate, Tenn. and St. Berea, Ky. N. pubescens is distinguished by red flowers. N. Richardsonii is the western representative of N. hispidula, a rare species from Va.-W.Va. border. Jan 17 (Friday) Received specimen of Scirpoides nigrescens from Cambridge. It has setae which are striolate but not reticulati. Finished synonymy of E. geniculata and part of key to species of Neucheria. Jan 20 (Monday) E. nigrescens rewritten on basis of type specimen, which is practically the same as Leon + Pocock's Cuban specimen. E. ambiguus, Fernald is perhaps the same as E. fallox and is much like E. palustrii of southern Europe. The illustration of Brunelia
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33 April 13 (Monday) Left at 2:30 P.M. for South with Mr. Buhle, stopping over night at Dover, Del. Nothing of interest in bloom except Viola Rofinaequei in Delaware and large masses of Erodium bicarinatum in the peach orchards. April 14 (Tuesday) While waiting for ferry at Cape Charles, I examined a brook a few miles to eastward, finding only two Phlox in bloom, Viola jerinabifolia lanceolata and V. craccollata (?). Got ferry at 2:30 P.M. for Cape Henry, and reached Edenton, N.C. in evening. Nothing of special interest on way, except flowering introduced cultivated shrubs, and immature plants of Eriogonum tomentosus. April 15 (Wednesday). Wilmington To New Bern, and Edenton, Victoria in full bloom. Saw Moth's cordon program along roadside just outside New Bern Edenton, also Iris versalis. Reached Newbern and took wrap road (to Beaufort instead of Wilmington). Splendid pine barrens (but little in- helited) along this road with a good deal of Iris versalis. Cut southwest before reaching Beaufort, and skirted Pamlico Sound and its bays. Collected I. versalis, Sarracenia flava, Viola septifolia, Rhodo- dendron atlanticum, Liriopechium, Cephalia. Also noted abundant Descurainia Pavica. Reached Wilmington about noon in late afternoon, having seen Dionaea along railway in sandy country a few miles to the northward. April 16 (Thursday) Reached Charleston before noon, without stopping to collect. Myrtle Beach looks interesting. Visited Biddleton gardens, southwest of Charleston, or
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35 Dwarf plants. D. recemosa, with unusually long racemes, growing in shallow water; Vascinium virgatum var. tenellum; Day-lussacia dumosa (dwarf); Viola pugosa (?); Euphorbia. At Blackville, a white sand-hill area was first encountered with Amorica ciliata; Euphorbia Gecacanthae; Driedo-scolus stimulatus; Tridescentia rosea (not yet in bloom); Arnica ocaulis; Helienthomum (2 sp.). Abundant locally on these sandhills is Lippine diffusos, as far inland as Aiken. Here the soil changes to a more clayey aspect. Just west of Augusta on sandy hills, I collected Arenaria squarrosa, Euphorbia Gecacanthae, Viola pedata, and a heavy-leaved leguminous plant just coming out leaf, perhaps a Baptisia. Nothing of further interest appeared in the heavily eroded clay and sand country of Georgia until one of the species of Stokes Nut was encountered just east of Atlanta [Little Stone Mt.] Here on the sandy granite shelves and floors of the quarries were great masses of Arenaria glabra brachyfolia and Dianophya fusible, filling the moist places with white and pink. Senecio tomentosus, Schweinlerion crecum and Soncerus flowers occupied turf places chiefly at the summit, and in small pools, Isetes indanosporea. Spent the night in Atlanta. (April 18-Saturday). A cold blustery day. Water from the previous heavy rains still stands in the fields and spring flowering has not commenced. North of Atlanta the only plants in flower are a few Viola pedata and Oxalis violacea. A single plant of Lilium virginica on an exposed cliff toward Chattanooga was the only thing of interest otherwise. After passing Chattanooga some Phlox divaricata.
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June 7 (Sunday). Worked on Juneau material, and species of Poa. The species collected at Owl Hollow and below Kerby-Smith junction is P. cuspidata (P. brachyphylla) with culms more sparse than in other material examined. Poa sylvaris (especially well represented in Washington region) has several branches in a head in the penicill and they are usually reflexed. P. ant- unnalis is much similar but usually with 2 branches in a whorl, and these not reflexed; the spikelets a little larger. P. debilis & erect, collected by me at Naples Crest, the lemmas are smooth. P. saltunensis is the commoner species in woods (collected at Joffe in 1934) and has rather stiff branches and much in narrower former leaves than P. alaska. P. palestris (P. triflora) appears to be much less common in meadows and has very small flowers. Arthroca tus (Bacmutens) except for the absence of basal hair tufts so much like Poa. Southern form of Claytonia virginica has several leaves and seed averaging 1.6 mm., just as in northern. June 8 (Monday). Went to Mrs. Nat. History to find out about Stephen Calverley. He came from Brooklyn; had a melanic Papilio (P. Calverleyi) named for him, and identified with H.W. Edwards and Wiedemeyer. June 9 (Tuesday). To Jossy Pond, Monerville, with Miss Rusk, Mr. Durkin, and Mrs. Putz. The season early for most plants, but found two specimens of Arthusa. Other things of interest: Nymphaea odorata var. minor, Vac- Cicium Oxyceros, Nymphaeathus advena, Eriophorum, Ceres atlantica, C. Howei, C. Walteri, Rynchospora fusca.
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50 June 10. (Wednesday) Went to Bergen Beach to see about Spartina maritima for church at Bronx. Material of S. alterniflora not yet in flower and will not be for another month. Collected Carex debilis and Agrostis scrobiculata. June 11. (Thursday). Left at noon for the Catskills. Rained hard in Kingston but cleared by the time the Catskills were reached. Stopped at South Lake for Cherleria Smallsii, Carex atlantica, C. interior, C. stricta, etc. and at the quarries at Taconville for fossil plants of which I got several good slabs. June 12. (Friday) Climbed Middleham High Peak in morning. Carex is so particularly profuse and interesting on the west slope including C. more-agilis, C. communis, C. aestivalis, C. radiata, C. praeclinis, C. [illegible] var. Budgei, C. laxiflora and C. capriculus all growing adjacent. Further up the mountain Milium effusum, Carex leptoneura, and C. intermedia var. Smaraldi; the summit of Northern High Peak has only two large trees (beeches) but an undergrowth of Prunus virginiana', P. pensylvanica, Acer spicatum, principally. On the steep northern slope, Ribes (2 species) and great masses (naturally sparse) of Decandra canadensis and D. Cucullaria, Claytonia Caroliniana, Erythronium, and the oblate-leaved Trillium erectum. Returned to Maple Crest by way of the Ridge. June 13 (Saturday). Visited Cribb in the morning. Collected in early afternoon on Sandstone escarpment west of Middleburgh: Carex varia (?), Andromeda, Eury- physisophos, Rhus aromatica, Thieracium venosum,
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"HK DONN 14:31, t. 1344, 1881. Centre Parigny. sur les angles, .... feuilles longues, très-étroites, glabres, à peine munies en partie de quelques cils très-fins et rares. "Les fleurs ... dont les bractées ... sont garnies de cils à leurs bords." p. 4. Scleria oligantha Mx. "glabra .... fleis acutissimis, asperis." foliis ... rudant à leurs bords que sur leur carène. WILD p. 318. S. pauciflora. "culmo ... scabro .... foliis margine scabris, fasciculis paniculatis binis terminalibus, spicis remotissimis acillari, neutris...cuntiusculis." 1805. [S. lirtella WILD.] An specimen of Scleria Cantriniæve WILD., Torrey Ann. NY. Ac. iii. p. 239 says "Michaux does not notice the fruit, and I did not particularly examine his specimens." Legeria Alexandra - apparently the common grass in Torre Pond Oct. 1 (Saturday), cw = G. colriceps Sorgholium Torre Pond. cw 5 = 2.4 mm achews colriceps 5 = 2.8 mm indica 5 = 2.1 mm Those of G. indicum are pale yellow-brown and prominently striped. Those of Torr Ponds and Colriceps are identical in character - a Lepidostyum frag in colour with similar clavicles-denticulate pubescences, achews of G. uliginosum are properly smooth, deep yellow and almost translucent. Achew characters could be a good approach to Species. Unquestionably the Torr Pond material is G. calvireeps agreeing in every respect with the Virginia material distributed by WILD, except in somewhat coarser size and more spreading leaves, although individual plants nearly identical can be picked out.
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65. Elarcheris, Outilly + Lepage, Two Bay, Ontario, 1946. 17a Albany Small headed, moderately dark. Alburn like E. calva: 16,209 = E. calva (23) 15,152 17b Attawapiskat 52°56' Range Smallii = 32:54, 16,359. 18a " E. Smellii = 17b. 16,388. 18b. " E. Smellii = 17b 16,307. 19a " " = exactly 18b. 16,303. 19b. " E. calva. 16,529; (16,540) 20a. " E. Smellii = 18b 16,510 20b Albany E. elliptica 16,208; (15,963). 21a Lake R. 54°20' (=16,303) (dwarf.) 16,714. {Smellii 21b. " E.Smellii (=16,307) (but head blacken). 16,742 22a Albany E. Smellii (=16,742) (head brown). 15,867 15,110. E. elliptica. Hurricane 48°20'. All this coarse material I consider to be E. Smellii; it is equivalent to my Canadian collections. 14/5/46 E. Smellii. Lake River 54°20 Attawapiskat 52°56' 16,772 16,545 16,359 ? 16,581 16,507 -Short, hard 16,297 16,742 (Very black-headed) 16,568 16,714 15,858 16,570 16,524 -very dwarf 16,303 16,307 16,388 -Short, hard Albany 15,950 15,866 15,867 Carex Nieklenburgii Carex uliginosa. Juncus debilis Bryodium olpeauridis * Carex Complanata * Juncus biflorus Just listed by Mack. from Texas. Pycrethon muticum Its practically glabrous; purple; P. laxum purple spikelets, round, green; P. scabra pectinoides, var. greenish (4 spikes) plain plant. Pleurodolonium * Elarcheris Wolfii Alism subgurban * Oct 3(Monday). Plants from Barrow north to Manchester (June 26) Sorgholium purpureum Ornara breviflora Pleria triploperata. Juncus Elliottii Apparently its flowering treated Elymus virginicus var. glabrifloras as typical by Steudel (?). It is naturally on Mine's Porlet Panicum virgatum m. cubense (Twigs VII, 6) describes Michaux's (trans to leaf) species as having 'dense' spike. from with Panicum caput-judaei 'brittle' and glabrous. and Bromera; a wooded variety. Selerie panicipra (typ.) over with Borrava
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105 Oct 2 (Sunday), Plants frm Cress. Rd. Pelham (June 6, 1938). Polygonum procumbens Porterida Polygonum hydropiperoides. f. alveorum Apparently the common thry & pond; attractive purple-flowered. Potentilla diversifolia. Polystichum fastigiatum adg. [illegible] (cited frm Teun, 6, femula). Potentilla julcher * [new]. Carex capilliformis [as loc given by Underwood]. Carex tribuloides persymlc unusually short. deep green, entated. Snephelium calceops. * [new] Paspalum longipalun [wppd frm Teun] g/fide. Rosa palestris Panien spretum [new] Patecla trevoplia Leersia hexandra * [new] Salix tinctoraum The slender coastal shrub = Curtis no. 744, Florida. Carex laeunworthii Plants frm Barres n. of Manchester (June 6.) Seleria pauciflora var. cordilievina (see p. 10) (with Dio. breoflii Carex Heublerbergii Junoes debilis Carex Conplanata * not listed by Wack from Teun. bt practically glabrous, purple; pergymm soeably vivid, green; graudon & crotes plain plant. Eleocharis Wolffii Seneera Carex intemsea, Hypssidium alopecuroides * Juncus biforus Erycmthum muntferm- P. flexuosum P. salea postelvida, var. Opleucodorus * Allium superbum Oct. 3 (Monday). Plants frm Barres n.w of Manchester (June 20) Snephelium purpureum Sleria triflora. Apparently the scattering treated as typified by [illegible] P. [illegible] correctly so, as R. Porret (Trans. VII, 6) describes Wistow's species as having Care. "fita. draba" and glabrous. Seleria pauciflora (typ.) ad. [illegible] Drsera brevifolia Juncus Elliottii Elymus origincus var. glabrifloras * Panicum virgatum var. rubra (craw to Teun) Plant with Panicum augustifolium and Dracera; a marked variety. 9/25