Harper: ExploratioxNS in Georgia 1903 167 



it is not likely that the specimens were collected close to Louisville, 

 for Mr. M. H. Hopkins, a very observant botanist who has lived 

 in Louisville for years and is familiar with the surrounding country, 

 tells me that he has never seen this plant. But the Altamaha 

 Grit country comes within fifteen miles of Louisville, and if there 

 are any rock outcrops in that part of it, it may have been on one 



Mr. Tack 



It was a common 



practice in Elliott's time (and continues to some extent to the 

 present day, unfortunately) for authors to cite as localities for 

 their specimens merely the nearest town, or the place from which 

 they were sent. 



Croom"*^ has published the following note on this species : 

 "Abundant in wet Pine woods, between the Oakmulgee and 

 Oconee Rivers,t Georgia. Flowers in May." His statement 

 that it grows in wet places is rather puzzling (unless perhaps he 

 saw it in rainy weather, when everything was wet), for I find it on 

 dry rocks. I And I do not quite understand its being abundant, 

 or growing so far inland. 



The fruit of Pentstemon dissectiis has never been described, 

 but it does not differ noticeably from that of P. Jdrsufus (the com- 



mon 



Utricularia resupinata B. D. Greene 



On the miry margin of a large shallow gr2.ss>y pine-barren 



pond in the lime-sink region of Decatur County about two miles 



southwest of Donalsonville, August 1 1 {jw. ip2^). Not previously 



reported from Georgia, or from any other southern state except 



Florida. 



Stokesia laevis (Hill) Greene 



This species has the reputation of being rare, therefore the an- 

 nouncement of a station for it in Georgia may be of interest. On 

 September 9 I collected it in moist pine-barrens in Dodge County 

 near Suomi, in the Altamaha Grit region (no. igSo). It was 



already past flowering. 



* Am. Jour. Sci. 25 : 76, 1834. 



f Doubtless somewhere between the modern cities of Dublin and Hawkinsville, 



through or near which points Croom is known to have passed. 



X The same discrepancy exists between the type-habitat and present known habitat 

 of Gerardxa Phiketietii Ell. See Mohr, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 6 : 727. 1901. 



