Aloridana were made in several other counties in northern 
Florida and southern Georgia. Although Wherry limited 
the range of S. gracilis from east-central Alabama and 
South Carolina northward, | have examined many speci- 
mens of the species from Florida, Louisiana and Texas. 
In examining the ‘‘noteworthy specimens” of J, flor- 
idanum cited by Wherry, I found that the Texas, Lou- 
isiana and two of the Florida citations are clearly referable 
to S. gracilis var. brevilabris. The spike in each of these 
plants is densely pubescent. It so happens that these two 
varieties (var. brevilabris and var. floridana) have the 
same flowering season. Thus it would be convenient to 
group them as asingle variety under S. gracilis if flower- 
ing season could be used as a basis for separating species 
and varieties. In such a case, the plants would stand as S. 
gracilis var. brevilabris, the oldest name. However, after 
having examined material of J,floridanum, I regard the 
essentially glabrous plants upon which Wherry based 
his description to be taxonomically distinct from var. 
brevilabris and also varietally different from S. gracilis. 
Hasirat: In wet sandy open pine-barrens and flat- 
woods, mucky or boggy soil in low pinelands, in savan- 
nahs, palmetto-scrub pineland or oak woods and on the 
edge of swamps and pocosins. 
FLOWERING SEASON: January (rarely November and 
December in Florida) to May. 
ILLusrration: Wherry in Journ. Wash. Acad. Sci. 
21 (1931) 50, fig. 1 (as [bidium floridanum). 
GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION : 
North Carolina: Pender County. 
South Carolina: Charleston, Florence and Sumter 
Counties. 
Georgia: Camden and Charlton Counties. 
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