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tioned in Mohr’s Plant Life of Alabama, but it was later reported 
from the base of Sand Mountain in Jackson County by T. G. 
Harbison.* It probably does not extend much farther south than 
where I saw it. 
ApIcEA puMILA (L.) Raf. 
On shaded alluvial bank near Beckley’s Landing, Marengo 
County, and in rich shady woods near Hatchetigbee Bluff, Wash- 
ington County ; accompanied by the somewhat similar Urticastrum 
divaricatum at both places. Apparently not reported from the 
coastal plain of Alabama before. 
FimpristyLis VAHL (Lam.) Link. 
Rather common on exposed loamy banks, considerably below 
high-water mark, in Greene, Hale, Sumter, Marengo, and Clarke 
counties. (Vos. 277, 1718.) This neat little plant evidently can- 
not stand, or does not have, much competition, for it grows in 
scattered tufts, unobstructed by other vegetation. A study of its 
life-history would doubtless bring out some interesting things. As 
the places where it grows are often under water, its periods of 
vegetative activity must be subject to considerable interruption.+ 
To offset this, it seems to have a habit of sending up several suc- 
cessive crops of culms during the season, and of course if any one 
crop succeeds in maturing seed its purpose is accomplished. Some 
of the specimens collected show two sets of culms of different 
ages, perhaps a month or two apart. 
Not very much is known about the range and habitat of this 
species. It is rarely mentioned outside of manuals and mono- 
graphs, and I had never seen it growing before this time and have 
not seen it since. Its name does not appear in Mohr’s Plant Life 
of Alabama, but singularly enough there is a specimen of it in the 
Mohr Herbarium at the puveeny e of sb sno from “ a tege allu- 
* Biltmore Bot. Stud. r: 155. 
Tt See notes on one of its near relatives, 7. ferpusi/la, in Bull. Torrey Club oe 
17-19. 1904. /. autumnalis seems to have similar struggles for existence in som 
places. Very minute specimens of the latter, some not more than an inch tall, ad 
fruiting, were collected on the muddy bottom of a shallow dried- -up Sid about a mile 
west of Black Buff, Sumter County, on October 12 (mo. 122). See also in this con- 
nection Fernald in Rhodora 11: 180. S 1909. 
