526 Harper : Some Alabama plants 



Scirpus georgianus Harper, Bull. Torrey Club 



27: 331. pi. 22. 1900 



Quite abundant in a marshy place near Wellington, Calhoun 

 County (in the Palaeozoic region), May 17, in flower. Previously 

 known only from two or three places in Middle Georgia.* During 

 the same month I saw from trains in Tuscaloosa and one or two 

 other counties what is probably the same species, though some of 



atrovirens M 



from Alabama. 



Rynchospora semiplumosa Gray 



As this species was originally described from Louisiana and is 

 common in the pine-barrens of Georgia, it was to be expected in 

 Alabama. In June I found it in moist pine-barrens within a few 

 miles of Geneva and Andalusia. 



Carex picta Steud. 



This has always had the reputation of being rare, but probably 

 chiefly because it flowers in March, when not many botanists are 

 stirring in the regions where it grows. Last spring I found it in 

 six counties, namely, Lauderdale, Colbert, Marshall, Blount, 

 Walker and Fayette. Dr. Mohr knew it only from Winston. 

 Its usual habitat is on shaded bluffs of the Coal Measures and 

 other non-calcareous Carboniferous strata. 



Rhapidophyllum Hystrix (Pursh) Wendl. & Drude 



This has been known to Alabama botanists from only one sta- 

 tion, in the vicinity of Auburn. On a visit to Evergreen, in Conecuh 

 County, last December, I found that it forms an important asset of 

 the shippers of Christmas decorations at that place, f so I instituted 

 a search for it in the vicinity, and found it at two places a few miles 

 apart. On a remote and almost inaccessible island in a creek swamp, 

 which the evergreen hunters must have so far overlooked, were many 

 fine specimens. In June I saw a few leaves being: carried in a 



*See Bull. Torrey Club 28: 466. 1901. — Later. Mr. Fernald (in Rhodora 

 8 : 163-164. 1906) has just announced a much wider distribution for it. 



|See Country Life in America 7: 171-176. Dec, 1904. The palms in the 

 picture in the lower left-hand corner of the first page are Rhapidophyllum. 



