Harper : Some Alabama plants 527 



buggy which I met a few miles from Greenville, in the next county 

 above, but I did not learn where they were gathered. It is rather 

 unfortunate that this species should be in demand for decorative 

 purposes, for it is the rarest palm in the Eastern United States out- 

 side of subtropical Florida, and it is liable to be exterminated from 

 some places before the laws of its distribution can be fully worked 



out. 



Dryopteris fioridana, which likewise has been reported in 

 Alabama only from the vicinity of Auburn, is also shipped from 

 Evergreen for the same purpose, but I did not succeed in finding 

 any of it growing. 



Eriocaulon lineare Small 



May 



the Coosa valley about two miles from Center, in Cherokee County, 

 together with Anchistea virginica and several other species rarely 

 stcn outside of the coastal plain. It was previously known only 

 from the pine-barrens of Georgia. 



Luzula saltuensis Fernald 



{Juncoides pilosum of other recent American authors) 



This has much the same habitat as Carex picta, and flowers at 

 the same time. I noted it last spring in Lauderdale, Colbert, 

 Fayette, Tuscaloosa, Cleburne and Chilton Counties, all in the 

 upper half of the state, in the Palaeozoic and Metamorphic regions. 

 It is not mentioned in Mohr's Plant Life or in Earle's Flora of the 

 Metamorphic Region of Alabama, f 



TlLLANDSIA USNEOIDES L. 



Professor Earle % reported this as having been all killed in the 

 Metamorphic region of Alabama by the freeze of February, 1899 ; 

 but I was gratified to find last April that his estimate of the dam- 

 was somewhat exaggerated. There is a good deal of this 



& ^ „«.», ^,w*^w, **«*. ^ — fefc> 



plant growing on trees among the granite cliffs along the Tal- 



*See Bull. Torrey Club 32 : 461-463. 1905. 



fFor notes on its occurrence in Georgia see Bull. Torrey Club 27: 324, 325. 



1900; 32: 154, 45 2 - I905- 



X Bull. Ala. Agric. Exp. Sta. 119 : 63. 1902. 



