Harper : Explorations ix Georgia 1904 463 



lineare to a plant from Sumter County {iio. ijgs) which I had dis- 

 tributed in my igo2 collection as E. texcnsc Koern. * seemed very 

 strong, so on May 21 I revisited that locah'ty and collected some 

 more specimens {no. 22ig) on the same spot. These proved to 

 be E, liJicare, as I suspected ; so E, texense seems to be known 

 only from the original collection, after all. 



I notice an unfortunate typographical error in the original 

 description o{ E, Uiieaj^e. At the end oi the first line, '* alternate *' 

 should be *' attenuate " (referring, of course, to the apex of the 

 • leaf). 



Aletris obovata Nash ; Small, FL S. E. U. S. 286. 22 Jl 1903 

 (Described more fully in Torreya 3 : loi, 102. 25 Jl 1903) 



This is the common if not the only white-flowered Aletris in the 

 Altamaha Grit region. In May I saw it in the counties of Ware, 

 Coffee (;/<?. 2201)^ Wilcox, Irwin and Berrien, in rather dry pine- 

 barrens. It was previously known only from the type-locality \n 

 northeastern Florida. 



Dr. Chapman describes the flowers of both A. aurea and A. 

 fan?wsa as either white or yellow, but it is now pretty evident that 

 his y^Wov^ farinosa was A. liitea Small, f and his white aitrca, A. 

 obovata Nash ; so the description of these two newer species has 

 considerably facilitated our understanding of the genus. Like 

 A, hitca^ which often grows with it, and blooms at the same time, 

 A, obovata differs from A.farinosa in range and from A. aurea in 

 time of flowering. 



With A. liitea and A. obovata at the place where I collected 

 the latter (near Douglas) were a h\\ specimens intermediate in 

 appearance, probably hybrids. 



HVMENOCALLIS sp. 



At the end of April a Hynunocallis {no. 21'jg) in full bloom 

 Was conspicuous in the brackish marshes at the upper end of Mc- 

 Queen Island in Chatham County, about five miles from Savan- 

 nah by the Tybee Railroad. It had only one or two flowers, 

 usually two, on each scape, and the leaves were only about 2 cm. 

 wide. This plant seems to have been known to LeConte, Feay, 



See Bull. Torrey Club 31 : 20. 1904. 

 t See Bull. Torrey Club 32 : 154. I905. 



