476 Harper : Collection of Plants in Georgia 



As it seemed to differ considerably .from any known species, I 

 wrote in April to my friend, Prof. J. W. Hendricks, of the South- 

 ern Normal Institute at Douglas, directing him to one of my locali- 

 ties and asking him to collect some flowering specimens for me. 

 He very kindly did so the same month, securing abundant ma- 

 terial with flowers and young fruit. He informs me that the best 

 specimens grew in shallow water or very near it. At the time I 

 collected my specimens the ground, although not covered with 

 water, was very moist. 



The plant is very abundant in its particular localities, and all of 

 the numerous individuals which I saw seemed to maintain their 

 characters perfectly. To Mr. Pollard's description I can add a 

 character which is not apparent in herbarium specimens, viz : in 

 the living plant (at least in September) the leaves are usually re- 

 curved until their tips touch the ground, somewhat after the man- 

 ner of Camptosorus, as might be expected from their great length 

 and thin texture. Some of the leaves of my largest specimens 

 were fully 5 dm. long when fresh. 



Some of the specimens collected by Professor Hendricks showed 

 the long dead petioles of last year's leaves, from which the outer 

 tissue had partly fallen off, exposing a strong whitish central vas- 

 cular bundle. This peculiarity I have never noticed in any other 

 species of the genus. 



Opuntia vulgaris Mill. 



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Mountain, at 1809 ft., which is probably the highest station 

 known for it. Stone Mountain, which has hitherto held the 

 record, is 123 ft. lower. It grows also on the Chattoogata Moun- 

 tains, which are about 75 miles farther inland, but not quite so high. 



Rhexia aristosa Britton 

 I collected this little-known species in wet pine barrens in 

 Sumter county on August 23 (no. 466), thus extending its known 

 range south westward about 250 miles, the only previously known 

 station in the Southern States being Sumter, S. C. My specimens 

 are probably the largest of this species ever collected, showing that 

 it reaches its greatest development in Georgia. It grows about 6 



