154 Harper : Explorations jn Georgia 1903 



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FiMBRisTVLis DiPHYLLA (Retz) Vahl, EnuiTi. 2; 289. 1806 



Common along moist sandy roadsides in and near ihe swamp 

 of Big Indian Creek on the road from Hayneville to Perry, Hous- 

 ton County, Sept. 3 {^lo. ig6y). Also s^tn the next day in simi- 

 lar situations east oi Mossy Creek on the road from Perry to Kath- 

 leen, in the same county. This is a tropical species, not previously 

 reported from the United States. Dr. Britton, who identified it, 

 tells me that in the West Indies it is principally a roadside w^eed 

 also, so that its native habitat is more or less problematical. It is 

 rather remarkable that it should penetrate 200 miles into the in- 

 terior of Georgia, and establish itself in such localities as the above, 

 several miles from any railroad or settlement, before being detected. 

 What seems to be the same thing was collected on a moist exposed 

 grassy bank at the edge of the Altamaha River marshes just be- 

 low Darien, two weeks later {fto, 200^, Its occurrence at this 

 seaport is not so surprising, but even there it appeared to have 

 been long established, and should have been seen before. 



LuzuLA sALTUENSis Fcmald, Rhodora 5 : 195. 1903 



{L. vernalis^ L. pilosa and Jiincoides pilosttm of American 

 authors.) 



Seen in rich shady woods on a north slope a few miles north- 

 west of Cuthbert, July 21. Quite rare. This discovery extends 

 its known range about 150 miles southw^ard, and well into the 

 coastal plain. (The opportunity to combine the new specific name 

 with the other generic name now in use will probably not long 

 be neglected, but in the meanwhile we prefer to use the name as 

 above.) 



Aletris lutea Small, Bull. N. Y. Bot. Card, i : 278, 1899 



This plant has the aspect of A. farinosa with flowers colored 

 almost like those of A, aiirea. Besides its individual characters 

 (/. e., such as might be exhibited by a single specimen without a 

 label), it differs from the former in range and from the latter in 

 time o{ flowering, being a month or two earlier. I collected it on 

 June 15 in rather dry pine barrens near Sandfly, Chatham County 

 {710. 18 2S). It was not previously known north of Florida. 



Canna flaccida Salisb. 



Like several other species confined to the southeastern United 

 States, this has been greatly neglected by modern bibliographers. 



