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mon along streams in the metamorphic region near the Coosa 

 River ; and it has recently been reported from Coosa County, on 

 the other side of the river, by F. W. Reed.* 



Like several other southern evergreens now nearly confined to 

 the coastal plain, this in all probability formerly grew in the moun- 

 tains farther north, where there is no longer any trace of it. The 

 fact that it has near relatives in eastern Asia is doubtless of some 

 significance in this connection. Its habitat is difficult to describe, 

 and not exactly like that of any other species known to me. It 

 grows normally neither in swamps nor in hammocks, but just on 

 the border line between them. A peculiarity of its range is that no 

 one seems to have ever seen it in Georgia, though in Macon and 

 Dale counties it is not very far from there, and Professor Earle 

 reports it from Lee County, which is still nearer. Bartram's obser- 



15) are worth reading. 







Hepatica acutiloba DC. 



Seen in March, in flower, on shaded Subcarboniferous bluffs in 

 Marshall, Madison and Colbert counties. Near Riverton, in the 

 last-named county, it grows within a mile or so of the Mississippi 

 line, and it could doubtless be found on the Palaeozoic hills of that 

 state also, though it does not seem to have been hitherto reported 

 west of Georgia and south of Tennessee. Having found it near 

 Riverton I naturally expected to find it also in the vicinity of 

 Florence, a little farther up the Tennessee river ; but strange to 

 say, the Hepatica there seems to be all triloba (as I was told before 

 I looked for it by Professor M. C. Wilson, a local botanist). 



Judging from a remark in Gattinger's Tennessee Flora, and 

 observations which have been made by other botanists, the exact 

 relationship between these two supposed species of Hepatica de- 

 serves looking into, and might well be made the subject of statis- 

 tical and experimental studies. 



Jeffersonia diphylla (L.) Pers. 

 In rich woods on the limestone at the northern base of Sand 



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*U. S. Forest Service Bull. 68 : II, 47 *9° 6 - 



