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now the lowest possible station for the plant on that river. But 

 about the same time that I visited Squaw Shoals Mr. R. S. Hodges 

 of the Geological Survey of Alabama saw what is undoubtedly 

 the same species in similar situations in a creek near Helena, 

 She by County, where it seems to be in no immediate danger of 

 extermination. 



Strange to say, this rare and handsome plant is not mentioned 



JFiG. 2. View of Squaw Shoals looking diagonally up-stream from site of lock on 



left bank. 



in either edition of Small's Flora of the Southeastern States, even 

 as a synonym. Although it might be difficult to distinguish 

 from H. occidentalis in the herbarium, it differs greatly from that 

 species in habitat, and blooms about two months earlier; approxi- 

 mately at the same time as an unidentified Hymenocallis in 

 South Georgia of which I published a photograph a few years 

 ago.* 



It seems rather strange to find a plant with a large bulb and 

 succulent leaves growing in running water, but this probably 

 indicates that the rocks to which it is attached are often exposed 

 to sun and wind for a few weeks in the fall, when the water is 

 lowest. 



*Bull. Torrey Club 32: 463-465./. 5. 1905; Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci. 17: 257. 

 pi. 24. 1906. 



