534 Harper : Some Alabama plants 



? Rhododendron Cuthbertii Small 



At several places in the eastern (Metamorphic) part of Chilton 

 County, on banks of streams, is a Rhododendron which a few 

 years ago would have been pronounced without hesitation R. 

 punctatnm Andr. ; but without flowers I have no way of distin- 

 guishing it from R. Cuthbertii Small, * a recently described species. 

 Neither is mentioned in Mohr's Plant Life, but R. punctatnm is 

 reported from Tallapoosa County by Professor Earlef and from 

 Eufaula by Dr. Chapman. % Professor Earle's plant is doubtless 

 the same as mine and as one which grows among the Pine 

 Mountains of western Middle Georgia, and Dr. Chapman's the 

 same as one in the Eocene region of Southwest Georgia,! but 

 whether the two are identical or not cannot be determined at 

 present. 



PlERIS PHILLYREIFOLIA (Hook.) DC. 



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barrens of Mobile County ; but last December I saw it in cypress 



* 



ponds near Gordon and Cowarts, in Houston County, and around 

 the lake near Florala, in Covington County, climbing the trees in 

 the same unique manner that I noticed in Georgia a few years 

 ago. 



ADELIA ACUMINATA MicllX. 



In view of the fact that this species, like many others of alluvial 

 habitat, extends up the Mississippi valley embayment of the coastal 

 plain to southern Illinois,^ it is not surprising that it should occur 

 along the Tennessee river near Florence, though that is a little out 

 of the coastal plain. (The same remarks will apply to Taxodium 

 distichtun, Planera aquatica and Brunnichia cirrhosa as well.) 



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to flower. The specimens were quite numerous and mostly above 



* Torreya 2 : 9. 1902. 



fBull. Ala. Agric. Exp. Sta. 119 : 97. 1902. 



JFL So. U. S. ed. 3. 288. 1897. 



§ See Bull. Torrey Club 33 : 240. 1906. 



|| Torreya 3 : 21, 22. 1903. 



IT s - M - Coulter, Rep. Mo. Bot. Gard. 15 : 53, 54. //. /o. 1904; H. A. Glea- 

 son, Torreya 6 : 8. 1906. 



