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had a perfect right to become members of our naturalized flora, 
and which should have been recognized in our botanies. The 
above-named plant belongs to this class. It has doubtless been 
naturalized for many years, and now one meets with it throughout 
the Eastern United States. During the past season it was 
noticed at numerous localities in Middle Georgia, and was col- 
lected on the dry, rocky slopes of Stone Mountain, De Kalb 
county, early in July, at the altitude of 1,200 feet, well established 
and producing abundant fruit. 
Lacerstraemia Inpica L. Sp. Pl. Ed. 2, 734 (1762). 
This very ornamental shrub has long been cnltivated in gar- 
dens from Southern Virginia southward. Dr. Chapman gives it 
no place in the Southern flora, but prints this note: “ The Crape 
Myrtle (Lagerstremia Indica 1..) originally from Eastern Asia, is — 
common in cultivation.’”’* The species is now well established 
about Stone Mountain, De Kalb county, Georgia, and blooms in 
the middle part of the State at an elevation of 1,000 feet about the 
second week in July. This species has long been cultivated in 
South America, but according to Dr. Morong’s observations it 
has not yet become naturalized in Paraguay. 
Nyssa BIFLORA Walt. Fl. Car. 253 (1788). 
Grows on the very summit of Stone Mountain, De Kalb 
county, Georgia, altitude 1,686 feet. It is remarkable that this 
tree usually confined to the seacoast or seaboard, from South- 
eastern Virginia southward, should occur in the above situation. 
There are a number of trees on the small dome-like top of the 
mountain, and they seem to flourish, although somewhat worn — 
and torn by the heavy winds which sweep by their exposed habi- | 
tat, and thrive notwithstanding the fact that they grow in but a 
few inches of sand collected in depressions of the hard granite rock. 
GayLussacia DuMosA (Andr.) T. & G.; A. Gray, Man. 259 (1848). 
In 1891 the geographical and altitudinal range of this “ coast” 
plant received a surprising extension by its discovery on a hillside 
near Hickory, in Western North Carolina, at an elevation of 
nearly 2,000 feet. (Mem. Torr. Club, 3: 8.) During the season : 
just past, while exploring in the vicinity of Tallulah Falls, Georgia, 
* Flora Southern U. S., 135. r 
