Harper: Explorations in Georgia 1903 159 



Epidendrum conopseum R.Br. 



This, the only epiphytic orchid whose range extends into 

 Georgia, is very hard to find until one becomes acquainted with 

 it, as I know from my own experience and that of some other bot- 

 anists, and there are few reliable records of its occurrence in the 

 state. Consequently I was agreeably susprised to find it in full 

 bloom near the western corner of Montgomery County on July 3 

 \?!0. i8jo\ This locality is about no miles from the coast and 

 200 feet above sea-level. Later in the season I saw it in Dodge 

 County near Eastman, in Dooly County near Cordele, and in 

 Early, Decatur and Thomas counties. The Dooly ,County sta- 

 tion is about 125 miles from the Gulf (the nearest salt water), and 

 300 feet above sea-Iev^el. At all these stations it grew on Mag- 

 nolia grandiflora^ and usually high up out of reach. Its prefer- 

 ence for this tree was noted long ago by Nuttall, who says in his 

 Sylva of North America (i : 97) : "It appeared there [near Sa- 

 vannah] to grow on no other tree ; " as well as by Elliott and per- 

 haps other writers. 



PoLYGONELLA Croomii Chapm. Fl. S. States i%y. i860 



Type-locality : " In Carolina or Georgia, probably in the 

 middle districts, Crooniy 



I would refer to this little-known species my specimens col- 

 lected on the sand-hills of Gum Swamp Creek in Montgomery 

 County, September 10 [no. igS^), At that time It was just begin- 

 ning to flower. Ten weeks earlier I had seen the same thing, 

 without flowers, in similiar situations in Tattnall County. It is a 

 diminutive shrub, not over a foot high and wide, and probably 



lives only a few years. 



Dr. Small in his remarks on this genus a few years ago * refers 



P. Croomii to P. hrachystachya Meisn., a Florida species, and in so 



doing states that "the labels show that Polygonella Croomii is 

 from ' South Florida,' and not from ' Carolina or Georgia ' as Dr- 

 Chapman records in the Flora of the Southern United States." 

 This is not strictly correct, however, for the original label (in 

 Chapman's handwriting) says "South Florida?" showing that 

 Chapman was in doubt about the locality, as he had good reason 



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* Bull. Torrey Club 23 : 40?- 1S96, 



