JOURNAL 
OF 
The New York Botanical Garden 
Vo. I. August, 1901. No. 20. 
THE REDISCOVERY OF ELLIOTTIA. 
A recent gift of flowering specimens of ElHottia racemosa from 
r. P. J. Berckmans recalls the interesting history of that plant 
ce not known in the wild state and quite justly thought to be 
extinct, except for three plants in cultivation in the grounds of 
Berckmans at Augusta, Georgia, and probably another plant 
which is said to be in cultivation at Kew, England. 
The genus £//ottia is represented by a single species. It is 
the h Family, and is a branching shru to ten feet tall, 
with particularly deep green leaves and showy white flowers. It 
was ered about Waynesboro, Burke , Georgia, early 
in the last centur: ephen Elliott, of Charleston, Sou 
Carolina, was then publishing his “ Sketch of the Botany of South 
Carolina orgia,”” and sent specimens t hlenberg, 
of Lancaster, Pa., for examination. Hiott, after giving the 
characters and ecpuaiiaa o the plant in the second volume 
of his work, says in a note: have inserted it as requested b 
as ed by 
t. Muhlenberg under this name” [Elliottia]. Dr. Elliott also 
states Hat “Mr. Jackson has lately sent it to me from the Oconee 
River]. 
Some time after this Mr. Wray found the plant near Augusta, 
eral miles north of the same city, while in 1853 Mr. Olney col- 
lected it near Hamburg on the South Carolina side of the Savan- 
