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and some of their predecessors, but in the present state of the lit- 

 erature bearing on the genus it is difficult to decide whether it has 

 ever received a tenable name. It is certainly distinct from a species 

 which grows in shady swamps in the Lower Oh'gocene region and 



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the southeastern states outside of Florida, and one of them is very 



Figure 5. IlynunocaUis sp. in Seventeen Mile Creek, Coffee County. May 12. 

 The creek was very nearly dry at the time, but water often covers this spot. 



local, growing only along the fall-line. These three species are 

 recognized in Mohr's Plant Life of Alabama, but it is not certain 

 that they are correctly named there. The study of this genus is 

 complicated by the fact that some species are said to produce more 

 flowers in cultivation than in the wild state, and several of them 

 wxre first described from cultivated specimens. 



