Notes on plants of the southern United States—V 
FRANCIS W. PENNELL 
KALMIELLA HIRSUTA (Walt.) Small 
Sandy scrub-land, between Theodore and Hollanders Island, 
Mobile County, Alabama, September 3, 1912, Pennell 4513. 
POLYCODIUM FLORIBUNDUM (Nutt.) Greene 
Open pine-land, Biloxi, Harrison County, Mississippi, August 
28, 1912, Pennell 4405. 
| SABATIA ELLIoTTIm Steud. 
Moist scrub-land, between Theodore and Hollanders Island, 
September 3, 1912, Pennell 4512. 
Dasystephana tenuifolia (Raf.) Pennell, comb. nov. © 
Diploma tenuifolia Raf. Fl. Tell. 3: 27. 1837. “‘ Florida . . . seenin 
the herb. of Torrey.”” The type, labeled in Rafinesque’s hand- 
writing ‘‘G. tenufolia Raf. Monog.,” is in the Columbia Uni- 
versity Herbarium at the New York Botanical Garden. It 
bears data of collection, “‘ Florida, Mr. Croom, 1832, flowers 
white.” 
In the American Journal of Science for October, 1833 (25: 69), 
H. B. Croom records ‘‘Gentiana alba (White flowered Gentian)”’ 
as growing in ‘‘ wet pine woods’”’ in Middle Florida, a region de- 
fined as ‘‘ that tract of country which lies between the Suwanee 
River on the east, and the Apalachicola on the west.’’ His 
“‘ observations were chiefly made . . . about twenty miles west of 
Tallahassee, about thirty miles from the Gulf of Mexico, in latitude 
about 30° 30’.”” The plant was seen in bloom January 1-5, 1833, 
and must certainly be the same species as the plant sent Dr. 
Torrey. 
Dasystephana tenuifolia is most nearly allied to D. Porphyrio 
(Gmel.) Small, long known as Gentiana angustifolia Michx. 
Rafinesque briefly distinguishes the two by certain features, the 
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