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past their prime), and after that its scapes must disappear almost 

 completely, and the leaves alone would attract no attention. When 

 it is in flower E, decangulare can usually be found with it, but very 

 immature and inconspicuous, and when, the latter blooms the 



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former is almost invisible. How such an abundant species as E. 

 lineare could have been overlooked so long can be explained only 

 on the supposition that it is nearly confined to the Altamaha Grit 

 region, which up to last year had scarcely been explored in spring. 



Figure 4. Eriocattlon lineare In moist pine-barrens, Douglas, Coffee County. 

 May 16. Two months later in the season E. decangulare can be found equally 

 abundant on the same spot. (The pitcher-plants are Sarracenia flava in^the back- 

 ground and S, flava X ^ninor\xx the foreground.) 



If the plant had ever been seen by other botanists it was probably 

 mistaken for Laclmocaidon anccpsQx Dupatya flavidula, which often 

 grow with it and are about the same size. In its own genus it is 

 probably nearest related to E. coniprcssum, a considerably larger 

 plant which flowers still earlier, in March and April, and grows 

 almost always in pine-barren ponds. E. sepiangidare is nearer to 

 it in size, but is rare in the South, growing on sandy margins of 

 ponds and flowering in late summer. f 



With more copious material at hand, the resemblance of E. 



*See Bull. Torrey Club 32 : 142. 1905. 

 tSee Bull. Torrey Club 31 : 14. 1904. 



