Harper : Some Alabama plants 533 



Baptisia bracteata Muhl. 



Seen in April and May on several dry rocky ridges in Cle- 

 burne, Calhoun and Talladega Counties, near the rather ill-defined 

 boundary between Metamorphic and Palaeozoic. Associated in 

 every case with Pinus palustris and other species of somewhat 

 similar distributiion. Previously known only from eastern Middle 



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Georgia. 



POLYGALA NANA (Michx.) DC. 



Since reporting this from DeKalb County* I have seen it in 



many other places in the upper parts of the state, particularly in 

 Marshall, Etowah, Blount, Walker, Talladega and Chilton Counties. 

 It occurs usually in dry woods, associated with Pinus palustris 

 (except on Sand and Lookout Mountains, where this pine is not 

 found), and grows scatteringly, rarely more than half a dozen 

 specimens being visible at once. In Georgia, where it seems to 

 be confined to the pine-barrens, I have not seen this species 

 within fifty miles of the fall-line. Whether or not its irregular dis- 

 tribution follows approximately the same laws as that of Myrica 

 carolinensis and other species mentioned above is an open question. 



Staphylea trifolia L. 



Probably the only coastal plain stations on record for this 

 species are in Quitman and Decatur counties, Georgia, along the 

 Chattahoochee River.f But on April 23 I found many specimens 

 along Catoma Creek in Montgomery County, some of them about 

 three inches in diameter and twenty feet tall, which seems to be 

 the maximum height recorded for this species, though not the 

 maximum diameter.^ 



Circaea lutetiana L. 



In rich woods along Chickasawbogue Creek on the road from 

 Linden to Demopolis, Marengo County (Cretaceous region of the 

 coastal plain), June 28. This station is of interest as being the 

 first recorded in the coastal plain (at least in the South), as well as 

 the southernmost by a good many miles. 



*Torreya6: 113, 115. 1906. 



|See Bull. Torrey Club 32 : 162, 163. 1905. 



J See Torrey a 5 : 164. 1 905. 



