80 Hhodora [APRIL 
S. vernalis Engelm. & Gray. Sandy roadside, Canton Road, 
Randolph (J. R. Churchill, Sept. 5, 1898. “So far as I know from 
authentic report your specimen. . . .is the most northerly as yet known.” 
In litt. to J. R. Churchill, May 3, 1905, by Oakes Ames who exam- 
ined the specimen); “іп dry fields," Easton (O. Ames, A. A. Eaton, 
& R. G. Leavitt, Sept., 1904. Specimens in herb. O. Ames. See 
Ames, 1. c. 134); Baldwin, in Orchids of N. E. 140. 1884, reports 
from Hanover 8. graminea, var. Walteri, which may be this species. 
C. H. KNOWLTON 
J. А. CUSHMAN Committee on 
WALTER DEANE Local Flora. 
A. К. Harrison 
NOLINA IN THE SOUTH ATLANTIC STATES. 
HARLEY Harris BARTLETT. 
Nolina georgiana, the type species of the genus, was described in 
Michaux's Flora Boreali-Americana. The characterization is so 
concise and clear that, although the locality is given no more exactly 
than “Georgia,” there can be no doubt as to the proper interpretation 
of the species. Nuttall knew it in the field, and said that it was 
“abundant towards Augusta, in Georgia.” His description, agreeing 
perfectly with the common Nolina of the fall line sand-hills, is merely 
condensed from that of Michaux. Elliott extended the range into 
South Carolina. 
Poiret’s Phalangium virgatum, collected by Fraser in Carolina, 
subsequent authors have agreed in referring to Nolina georgiana, — 
a disposition which would seem extremely probable on geographic 
grounds, and which, moreover, is not controverted by any evidence 
in the original description. 
As early as 1852 a plant was collected in East Florida, which 
Chapman and other botanists identified as Nolina georgiana and sent 
to their correspondents under that name. Although it turned up not 
infrequently, current manuals, down to the time that Small’s Flora 
