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H. juncea recognition as a species on “the high authority of Sir J. 
E. Smith." He also called the few-flowered but otherwise similarly 
described plant H. filifolia. I have examined seeds of both the one- 
and the few-flowered specimens and I have found practically no 
differences between them. The original description and plate are 
characteristic although Smith stated that his plant was “ Discovered 
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in boggy ground in Carolina by the indefatigable Mr. John Fraser, 
from whose garden this specimen was obtained." H. juncea is very 
common in Florida and, judging by herbarium representation, rare 
in Georgia and extremely local in South Carolina (seen only 
from Charleston). Prior to the publication of H. juncea, Fraser had 
collected extensively in South Carolina and in Georgia and since 
Elliott’s H. filifolia also came from South Carolina and Georgia it 
may be that H. juncea has a broader range than herbarium-material 
