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168 Harper: Explorations in Georgia 1903 



Carphephorus tomentosus (Michx.) T, & G. 



This species seems to have such a limited distribution in 

 Georgia that a few stations for it may be worth mentioni'ng. I 

 have seen it only in rather dry nearly flat pine-barrens in the lower 

 part of the Altahama Grit region or between that and the coast, in 

 the counties of Appling, Wayne and Pierce. In September, when 

 it was in flower, I saw it at the follow^ing places. In Apph'ng : 

 near Prentiss (^uo, ^ppj), and between Southern Pines and Hurst 

 (two stations on the B. & B. R. R.) ; in Wayne : near Hortense 

 and Nahunta ; and in Pierce, between Offerman and Bristol. 



Chondrophora vjrgata (Nutt.) Greene, 



Erythea 3: 91. 1895 



This little known species has an interesting and rather anom- 

 alous distribution and somewhat of a history. The only definite 

 stations for It now on record are in the mountains of Alabama, on 

 Carboniferous sandstone. Its occurrence there has been de- 

 scribed or discussed by Mohr,* Kearney f and Harbison X ; and I 

 have seen an immature specimen collected somewhere in the same 

 region by Eggert, In 1 903 I met with it quite unexpectedly in 

 Georgia, two or three hundred miles from the Alabama localities 

 and in very different surroundings from those previously described, 

 but associated with a few of the same species which are said to ac- 

 company it in Alabama. I found it only on outcrops of Alta- 

 maha Grit, in Tattnall (no. 185 f) and Dooly {rio. i8s5) counties. 

 At the latter station C. nudata (which is very abundant in almost 

 all moist pine-barrens) was growing only a few yards away, but 

 the two species were perfectly distinct, though flowering at the 

 same time. There can be little doubt of the identity of my speci- 

 mens with those from Alabama, but whether any of these are the 

 same as Nuttall's type is another question, as Dr. Mohr pointed out. 



+ 



Chrysoma pauciflosculosa (Michx.) Greene, Erythea 3 : 



8. 1895 

 This, usually considered a sea-beach plant, § also occurs some 

 distance in the interior. On September lo I found it at two 



* Bull. Torrey Qub 24 : 28. 1897 ; Contr. U. S. Nat, Herb. 6 : 79, 771. 1 901. 



t Science II. 12 : 833. 30 N 1900, 



X Biltmore Bot. Stud, i : 153. 1902. 



§ See Lloyd, Bull. Torrey Club 28 ; 445-450. looi. 



