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Eleocharis Robbinrii; and, rare in the mud, E. olivacra; a pretty 

 good list of eoastal plain types to find within half a mile of the cold 

 rocks of the Bay of Eundy. Lophiola was abundant, coloring the 

 savannahs for two or three miles with its misty, white corymbs, 

 its yellow-bearded and reddish expanded perianths certainly suggest- 

 in^ the English name, Golden ('rest. 



The genus Lophiola, although placed by Bentham & Hooker in 

 the Haemadorflceae, is by other systematists placed in the tribe Cono- 

 stylideae of the AmaryUidaceae, This tribe has 50 species confined 

 to southwestern Australia, 1 species at the ('ape of Good Hope and 

 the genus Lophiola, with three localized areas: one extending from 

 Mississippi to Florida and southern South Carolina; another the 

 pine barrens of New Jersey and adjacent Delaware; the third, the 

 savannahs on Digby Neck (fig. 17). Bui the plant of Digby Neck 

 has a further claim to interest. The genus was based on a plant 

 said to have been carried back to England by John Lyon in 1S12 and 

 there cultivated and, in 1813, illustrated and described from a plant 

 which flowered in England. Lyon, it would seem, from what little 

 is recorded of him, had lived at Philadelphia until, in 1806, he re- 

 turned to England "with 14 new spp." 1 He soon returned to America 

 and devoted his energies to botanical exploration of North and South 

 Carolina, Georgia and Florida, whence he returned to England in 

 1812; "he assiduously explored this region [the Carolinas] from 

 Georgia as far north at least as the Grandfather Mountain, and died 

 iit Ashville some time between 1814 and 1818. " 2 



Now the case would not be specially complicated if Lophiola aurca 

 were, as has been generally supposed, a monotype; but close study 

 shows that the plants of the three different areas are quite distinct 

 species, the plants of the South and of New Jersey having olivaceous 

 capsules free from the perianth only above the middle and seeds 



var. minor Sims, but the latter name was substituted by Sims for Pursh's earlier 

 one because, when cultivated iji England, the variety had white flowers. The bib- 

 liography is as follows: 



Nymphaea odobata, var. bobba Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 309 (1814). N. odorata, 

 var. minor Sims, Hot. Mag. t. i *»r.^ (1814); Conard, Waterlil. 183, fig. 68 (1905). 

 A', minor (Sims) DC, Veg. Syst. li. 58 (1821). A', odorata. var. purri flora Uaf., 

 Med. Hot. ii. 45 (1830). N. rosea (Pursh) Uaf., 1. e. (1830). Castalia odorata. forma 

 rosea (Pursh) Britton, Cat. PI. N. ,1. 14 (1880). C. odorata rosea- (Pursh) Britton 

 aee. to Morong, Mem. Torr. Hot. CI. v. 154 (1894). 



'Britten & Boulger, Biogr. lnd. Brit, and Irish Bot. 109 (1893). 



•Gray, Lond. Journ. Bot., i. 11 (1842). 



