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The Harperella Is even less known to botanists than the 

 HymenocalUs , having been found previously only in rocky beds 

 of streams on Sand and Lookout Mountains in northeastern 

 Alabama, and that only since 1905.* It was not in flower or 

 fruit at the time, and I did not collect specimens, so that this 

 new locality may never be represented by evidence of the kind 

 demanded by some systematists. 



Eleocharis mutata is another comparatively rare species, pre- 



FiG, 3. HymenocalUs coronaria at Squaw Shoals, in about a foot of water. 



viously reported in the United States only from the glaciated 

 region and coastal plain, where it grows usually in ponds. f 



On the loamy banks of the river at this place are found among 

 other things Alnus rugosa, Kalmia latifolia, and Batodendron 

 arhoreum, which cannot endure much fluctuation of water, and 

 Fraxinus caroliniana and Breweria humistrata, which are chiefly 

 confined to the coastal plain. 



It is one of the ironies of fate that the shoals, rapids and falls, 



* See Torreya 6: 112-114. 1906; 10: 237-239. 1910. The plant was then 

 referred to H. nodosa, H. fluviatilis not having been described until afterward. For 

 description of the latter see Rose, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 13: 290. 191 1; Small, 

 Fl. S. E. U. S., ed. 2, 1355. 1913. 



t See Mohr's Plant Life of Ala. 396-397; also Rhodora 7: 72. 1905. 



