Harper: Explorations in Georgia 1903 165 



or spider had woven a dense web in some of the larger appen- 

 dages, but this may not mean anything. 



Eryngium aromaticum Baldw. 



In dry sand near Jesup, Wayne County, in flower, September 

 14 {ito. iggS.) This extends its ^knovvn range about 50 miles 

 northward. I found this plant near the Florida line in Charlton 

 and Clinch Counties in August, 1902, but before that it had been 

 known only from Florida. * 



The '' Eiyngiuni foetidum L.'' mentioned by Michaux and 



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plant on his travels in northeastern Florida, where it is often col- 

 lected. Walter also mentioned an E. foctidiwi^ the description 



E. 



He of CO 

 territory. 



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Since reporting this species from Telfair County, J I have found 

 still another station for \t^ about forty miles farther south, namely, 

 in very dry pine-barrens just north of Douglas, Coffee County, 



* In the Torrey Herbarium there is a specimen of it labeled *' Near Fort King, 

 Alabama, Lt. Alden^ '^^Z'^\ ^^^^ ^7 reason of this specimen it has been credited to 

 Alabama in Coulter and Rose's Revision (1S8S) and Monograph (1900) of North 

 American Umbeliiferae^ and in Small's Flora of the Southeastern States (1903'). But 

 this species is not mentioned in Dr. Mohr's Plant Life of Alabama (1901), and on 

 investigating I find that the "Alabama" on the label must be a clerical error. Tor- 

 rey and Gray were not misled by it, but it seems strange that they did not correct the 

 label. Fort King is (or was) in Marion County, Florida, near the present city of 

 Ocala, and a battle was fought there April 28, 1840, so it is extremely likely that this 

 is the place where Lieut. Alden was stationed in 1833. Further evidence as to the 

 field of Lieut. Alden' s botanical operations is found in Torrey and Gray's Flora of 

 North America, In the preface (p. xii) they say: *' From Southern and Eastern 

 Florida we have received interesting collections from . . . Lieut. Alden of the United 



States Army, " (And this gentleman is not mentioned among their contributors from 

 Alabama.) In the same volume under Eryngium arofnaticum (page 604), they say: 

 " Dry pine woods, East and Middle Florida, Bahhvin 1 Dr. Leavenworth! Mr. 

 Alden f So we have no evidence that £. aromaticum grows within 140 miles of 

 Alabama. Errors of this kind usually die hard, so I have gone into considerable detail 



in order to suppress this one. 



fSee C. & R. Rev. N. Am. Umbell. 99. 1888; Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 7: 



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250. 1900. 



jTorreya3: 106. 1903. 



