530 Harper : Some Alabama plants 



Paronychia riparia Chapm. 

 Siphonychia pauciflora Small 



These two species, new to the state, I found on sandy banks 

 ivers near Geneva the latter part of June. 



Magnolia glauca L. 



This tree has long been known to occur in the Metamorphic 

 and Palaeozoic regions of Georgia and Alabama,* but it may be 

 worth mentioning that I have recently found it still farther from 

 the coast than it is usually seen. It grows on Sand Mountain in 

 Marshall County near Albertville (some of the specimens there 

 reaching a diameter of nine inches and a height of about fifty feet), 

 on Lookout Mountain (a foot in diameter) as well as in the Coosa 

 valley in Cherokee County, and in Blount County near Oneonta. 

 The Sand and Lookout Mountain localities are between 900 and 

 1 100 feet above sea-level. (Dr. Gattinger reports it from Madi- 

 son County, Tennessee, which is still farther inland, but in the 

 coastal plain.) 



In the western part of the state, in the Tuscaloosa region of 



the coastal plain, this species is very common in the southern part 



of Marion County, up to latitude 34 , and the largest specimen I 



have ever seen, three feet in diameter, is in the western part of 



Fayette County, a little outside of the range given on Dr. Mohr's 

 map. 



The geological history of Magnolia glauca is probably similar 

 to that of Myrica carolinensis, with which it often associates. 



Illicium floridanum Ellis 



The range usually given for this species, " Florida to Louis- 

 iana/' might lead uninformed persons to believe that it is found 

 only near the coast. But in Alabama it has a pretty wide distri- 

 bution, and is not even confined to the coastal plain. It seems to 

 be most common in the region of the Tuscaloosa formation, in 

 Marion, Lamar, Pickens, Tuscaloosa, Bibb, Chilton, Autauga, 

 Elmore and Macon counties. In Chilton County it is also com- 



* The northern boundary of its range in Alabama as known to Dr. Mohr is mapped 

 on the frontispiece of his Plant Life. 



