BULLETIN 
TORREY BOTANICAL CLUB. 
Studies in the Botany of the Southeastern United States.—XII. 
By Joun K. SMALL. 
(PLATE 315.) 
I. Norewortuy SPECIES. 
TRADESCANTIA MONTANA Shuttl.; Britton, in Britton & Brown, III. 
Fl. x: 377. fig. O41. 1000; 
Mr. C. D. Beadle has distributed specimens of this Alleghenian 
Lradescantia from the Biltmore Herbarium, which match the 
original specimens of Rugel more closely than any others that 
Ihave seen. The plants from Biltmore are somewhat larger and 
More advanced than the specimens on which the species was 
founded but come from the same general region. The original 
Specimens are accompanied by the following record: “In pre- 
eruptis reg. med. mont. Broad River Ms., Carolina Sept. legit 
Rugel, Jun. 1841. 
SISYRINCHIUM GRAMINOIDES Bicknell, Bull. Torr. Club, 23: 133. 
1896. 
After describing this Sisyrinchium Mr. Bicknell gives a general 
distribution for the species, but notes the “ exact distribution not 
well made out.” I can now record two definite southern stations: 
the first, Stone Mountain, Georgia, where I collected the plant at 
an altitude of about 550 meters, in 1895, and Auburn, Alabama, 
where Prof. Underwood gathered specimens in 1896. 
OXALIS GRANDIS Small, Bull. Torr. Club, 21: 474. 1894. 
Mr. C. D. Beadle has lately sent me specimens of this, our 
