602 HarPER: DISTRIBUTION OF PLANTS OF THE COASTAL PLAIN 
mouth, North Carolina, like Sarracenia flava and several other 
plants. In 1906, too, I saw it only in the same state between Lake 
Waccamaw and the Neuse River. 
Pursh reported this species from ‘‘shady rocky situations, on 
’ and on the strength of this 
reference it has found a place in most northern manuals, until Prof. 
A. S. Hitchcock, in elaborating the grasses for Robinson & Fer- 
nald’s Manual, 1908, excluded it. Mr. Kearney found it only 
near New Bern, like the preceding. 
It is possible however that this species has been misinterpreted, 
and that our familiar wire-grass is not Michaux’s Aristida stricta 
at all. There are some serious discrepancies between the original 
description and the plant that now goes by that name, and the 
habitat assigned to it by Pursh is decidedly not that of the wire- 
grass. This is a matter that deserves investigation. | 
CHAMAECYPARIS THYOIDES (L.) BSP. 
In 1906 I did not see this at all between Alabama and New 
York,* but last year I was more fortunate, having noted it once 
among the fall-line sand-hills of Kershaw County, South Carolina, 
(about 10 miles northeast of Camden), twice within five miles of 
Hamlet,} once in Beaufort County south of Washington, North 
Carolina, and several times in the pine-barrens of New Jersey. 
TAXODIUM IMBRICARIUM (Nutt.) Harper (7. adscendens Brong.). 
Last seen about nine miles south of Plymouth, N. C., like 
several other species already mentioned. The only place where 
I saw this in the fall-line sand-hill region was in the same bog 
with the Chamaecyparis just mentioned, which happens to be 
within a few miles of where Croom once found it.t 
TAXODIUM DISTICHUM (L.) Richard. 
Last seen at the same place as Nyssa uniflora, along the Chicka- 
hominy River in Virginia. Its inland limit in the Middle Atlantic 
states seems to be very similar to that of Myrica cerifera. 
PINUS VIRGINIANA Mill. 
First seen in Warwick County, Virginia, about 614 miles north- 
river sides: Virginia, Carolina, etc.,’ 
*See Bull. Torrey Club 34: 377. 1907. 
+See Torreya 6: 43. 1906. 
tSee Am. Jour. Sci. 28: 166. 1835. 
