HARPER: COASTAL PLAIN OF THE CAROLINAS oii 
not get a good look at, should prove to be of this species. Au- 
thentic records of it farther north than Wilmington are not want- 
ing, however, for Croom reported it from the vicinity of Newbern, 
and from Drowning Creek, 32 miles southwest of Fayetteville,* 
which must be almost exactly where I saw it in 1go5. + 
CHAMAECYPARIS THYOIDES (L.) B.S.P. 
This tree is evidently much more local in distribution than is 
commonly supposed, for I did not see a single specimen between 
Tuscaloosa and New York (a distance of 1900 miles by the route 
I took), though I was in or near its supposed range the whole 
distance. To determine and explain its exact distribution would 
be a most interesting problem.{ 
SELAGINELLA ACANTHONOTA Underw. 
Seems quite abundant on the sand-hills of the Lumber River 
in the northern corner of Horry County, South Carolina. Not 
previously reported from that state. Ordinarily one could not be 
sure of the identity of such a small plant when viewing it from a 
moving train, but as I had seen it under similar circumstances in 
Georgia just a week before,§ and its habitat at the new station was 
the same as it usually is in Georgia, ||I had very little doubt on that 
score. Having been discovered in North Carolina { and collected 
several times in Georgia, there was no reason why this species 
should not turn up in South Carolina. 
CoLLEGE Point, NEW YORK. 
* Am, Jour. Sci: 28: 166. 1835. 
t See Torreya 6: 42. 1906. : oe : ; 
t The following references to notes on its local distribution may be of interest : 
Torreya 3: 122. 1903; 6: 43. 1906; 7: 43. 1907. Also Croom, Am. Jour. 
Sci. 26: 316. 4 
@ See Torreya 6: 245. 1906. : 
||See Bull. Torrey Club 32: 152. f 3; Fern Bull, 13: 15. 1905; Ann. N. 
Y. Acad. Sci. 17: 309. pi. 28. 1 : 
The type locality is near Wilmington, presumably on the — = ae ge 
Fear River, This is undoubtedly the ‘* Lycopodium rapesire of ote s flora 2 
Wilmington, and probably the ‘clusters of moss’? mentioned in renhag survey 0 
New Hanover County (p. 19) asa characteristic feature of the sand-hills. 
