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This orchid has not 



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been collected before in the state of South Carolina, and only at 

 Wilmington in North Carolina (herb. N. Y. Bot, Garden, 

 Ca/tdj^, 1867). Towards the south it has not been found nearer 

 than Florida and southern Georgia. 



SOLIDAGO VERNA M. A. CurtlS. 



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Carolina, May, 1909. Hitherto this very rare plant has not been 

 found except in eastern North Carolina and no exact locality is 



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In the Flora of North America, Torrey and Gray (2 : 205. 

 1842), 5. ve?via is given on authority of Curtis from ''open sandy 

 pine woods near Wilmington, and Lenoir County, North Carolina," 

 to which is added '' (Florida, Her^, Rafinesqiie /)." But in Gray's 

 Synoptical Flora of North America, Lenoir County, North Carolina, 

 and Florida are omitted from its habitat and it is given only from 

 "open and sandy pine woods near Wilmington, N. Carolina, 

 Curtis'' From this it would seem that its occurrence in Florida 

 has not been established ; but as to Lenoir County, which lies 



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some seventy miles north of Wilmington, if Curtis said he found 

 it there, its occurrence there can scarcely be doubted. In his 

 ' Catalogue of the Indigenous and Naturalized Plants " of North 

 Carolina (Geol. and Nat. History Survey of North Carolina, 

 Part III, Raleigh, 1867) Dr. Curtis himself gives S. verna only 

 from the low districts "(low dist.)." 



So far as I have been able to discover, 5. verna has been dis- 

 tributed only by Rev. M. A. Curtis, Dr. T. F. Wood, and Mr. 

 Gerald McCarthy, all of whom seem to have collected their plants 

 around Wilmington. The species is listed in 

 Wilmington Flora (Journal of the Elisha Ml' 



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The occurrence of the plant at Hartsville. South Carolina, 

 extends its range about one hundred and ten miles to the westward. 



JuNcus ABORTivus Chapman. 



Four plants were collected in a damp grassy meadow in Burnt 



