Harper: Explorations in Georgia 1904 4<)\ 



Hill, Wilkinson County (uo. 2116), and in rich woods between 

 Tivola and Beech Haven, Houston County. At the former 

 station (see figure 2) it and several of its congeners were quite 

 abundant. This is one of the few Carices which shows a decided 

 preference for calcareous soil. It does not seem to have been re- 

 ported from the coastal plain of Georgia before (though I collected 

 it in Sumter County in 1900), but it has long been known from 

 the Palaeozoic region (Northwest Georgia), where it seems to have 

 been first discovered. 



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In the description of the species in Small's F'lora the word 

 staminate is inadvertently used instead of pistillate, and in the key 

 the descriptive phrase '* Leaves pubescent " belongs to the north- 

 ern representative of the group Flexiles (see Britton's Manual, P^g^; 

 206), and not to C, cherokeensis. This gave me some trouble in 

 identifying it. The following characters might well be added to 

 the existing descriptions of this very distinct species ; — Rootstocks 

 stout, elongated, horizontal, partly covered with the rigid persistent 

 bases of the leaves ; leaves smooth and shining, tough, purple at 

 base. 



Carex RENiFORMis (Bailey) Small 



With or near several of its congeners (but perfectly distinct 

 from any of them) in the swamp of the Ohoopee river near the 

 center of Tattnall County, April 26 {no, 2ijj). Previously 

 known only from Mississippi and Louisiana. 



Eriocaulon lineare Small, Fl. S. E. U. S. 236. 1903 



This was one of the greatest surprises of the whole trip. It 

 was originally described from a few specimens collected in wet 

 woods in the pine-barrens in the upper part of Bulloch County in 

 June, 1 901 ; and I never saw a trace of it again until April and !May 

 of last year. Then I was astonished to find it one of the most 

 abundant plants in moist pine-barrens in the Altamaha Grit region, 

 growing in countless millions in Bulloch, Tattnall, Montgomery 

 i^^o. 21^6), Coffee, Wilcox, Irwin, Berrien, and doubtless many 

 other counties. Its habitat is exactly that of the well known and 

 larger £. dccangidare, which is equally abundant and conspicuous 

 during the summer months. E, lineare seems to flower only in 

 April and May (the type specimens, collected early in June, were 



