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from Mr. Kelsey, who visited the region last spring and col- 
lected many specimens, both plants and flowers. We can 
not do better than let him tell the story in his own words. 
e says: ‘‘ Its native habitat is on or near the banks of the 
Jocassee (lower Whitewater) river, in Jocassee valley, 
Oconee county, S. C., about thirty-three miles from High- 
lands. When I was there—the middle of March—it was in 
full bloom and covered the banks of the river by acres, and 
extended up and down the river more or, less for three miles. 
In places it grew in solid beds like the Galax aphylla. This 
one locality, as far as is known, is the only place where Shor- 
tia grows in the world, and until quite lately its real presence 
here was not positively known and determined.” 
It was growing én abundance on his place, in the shade 
along the banks of a little brook, where it had been trans- 
planted. With it grew the Galax aphylla, with which we 
had already become familiar. It was easy to see how Shor- 
tia gets its name galacifolia. The leaf very closely resem- 
bles that of Galax in general appearance, though t e latter 
is heart-shaped at the base and crenately-toothed, while the 
former is nearly orbicular and serrate, with rounded mucro- 
nate-tipped teeth. In each all the leaves are gathered ina rad- 
ical cluster. While to one familiar with both the differences 
ry easy, on a hasty 
alax, when not in 
ain why it has not sooner 
in the mountains. This is 
its very early time of flowering 
mountains, we would call ges to i are there many 
es 
which bear evergreen a « Arbutus, but the 
great masses of Rhod 
keep the woods green a 
Evanston, Ml. 
