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leyi was found growing on horizontal, moss-covered granite rocks 
at the northern base of Stone Mountain, De Kalb county, Georgia, 
in April, 1893, altitude 1,000 feet. 
Until lately this fern was one of those noted for its restricted — 
geographical and geological range. Now it is seen to have an ~ 
extensive and interesting distribution. The boundary of its area 
appears to be from Eastern New York to Kentucky, Tennes- 
see and Arkansas to Middle Georgia, and north to Southeastern 
Pennsylvania. In Kentucky, Tennessee and Arkansas, the origi- 
nal localities, it was confined to the limestones and sandstones. 
In Southeastern Pennsylvania, where the best developed and most 
beautiful specimens have been found, some measuring almost one 
foot in length, it occurs on the rotting schistose rocks of the Lower 
Susquehanna Valley. In Middle Georgia we have it from the 
hard, white granite. 
Metta AZEDERACE L. Sp. Pl. 384 (1753). 
« The Pride of India or China-Tree (Melia Azederach L..) belongs 
to an allied order MELIACE®.” This statement we find in Chap- | 
man’s Flora of the Southern United States. Having no position © 
assigned to it in the Flora, we infer that at the time of publication — 
this plant had not yet established itself in our country, but was per- _ 
haps frequent in cultivation throughout the extreme Southeastern 
States. Now the species is thoroughly naturalized in Middle and © 
Southern Georgia and very likely in all the surrounding territory. 
During the past season I collected fruiting specimens near the | 
base of Little Stone Mountain, De Kalb county, and at several : 
localities on the rocky banks of the Yellow River in Gwinnett — 
county. The prevailing common name in Middle Georgia is 
‘“‘China-berry.” | 
Baptisia SEREN# M. A. Curtis, Amer. Journ. Sci. (I.) 7: 406(1845)- 
From the general appearance and acccording to Mr. Canby’s | 
key to the species of the genus Baptisia (Bot. Gaz. 4: 131) my - 
Georgia specimens belong to the above. Heretofore it seems to | 
have been known only from the region about Society Hill, South 
Carolina, where Mr. Curtis first collected it. While traveling 
between Toccoa Falls and Tallulah Falls, in Habershan county, 
Northern Georgia, I found the erate scattered quite sata 
