342 Harper: BoraNicaAL EXPLORATIONS IN GEORGIA 
was called to it by a description in Dr. Mohr’s Plant Life of Ala- 
bama,* which agrees very well with my specimens. It is very 
close to I~ nudum, but can be distinguished in the field without 
much difficulty. V. xwdum was collected near the same place two 
days later (no. 842). 
VERNONIA MAXIMA Small, Bull. Torrey Club, 297: 280. 1900 
Abundant on the muddy banks of Mill Creek about two miles 
east of Dalton, Whitfield County, where I collected it on Septem- 
ber 7 (no. 1292). Not previously reported from Georgia. 
CAcALIA SULCATA Fernald, Bot. Gaz. 33: 157. 21 F 1902 
I have known this species since August 22, 1896, when I first 
collected it in a sandy bog southeast of Americus, twelve miles 
from the type-locality given by Mr. Fernald. I have specimens 
collected at the same place August 20, 1897, and on the same 
date in 1900 (no. 435). This locality is especially characterized 
by the presence of /uncus trigonocarpus and Sarracenia Drum- 
mondit. was never able to refer my specimens to any described 
species until J saw Mr. Fernald’s description, which I immediately 
recognized as belonging to my plant. I have not seen any of the 
type material (Curtiss’s no.6884A, from Smithville, Lee County, 
Ga., August 26, 1901), the only specimen of it distributed by Mr. 
Curtiss being in the Gray Herbarium, but Mr. Fernald has com- 
pared one of my specimens with the type and pronounces them 
identical.+ 
This species of course belongs to the genus Mesadenia Raf., 
but Mr. Fernald does not consider Mesadenia distinct from Cacalia, 
and as I have not sufficient knowledge of these plants to disagree 
with him, I refrain from changing the name. 
COLLEGE Point, N. Y. 
* Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb.6: 744. 1901. Pree 
8 Je have recently (October, 1902) seen a specimen of the same thing collected in 
-» Aug. 20, 1894, by the late Mrs. Sarah Thompson, of Smithville. 
