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Almond (visited by Dr. Smith on August 31, 1896, about a month 

 after he had been on Cheaha Mountain with Dr. Mohr). Dr. 

 Svenson and I did not have time to visit it last year, but Dr. 

 McVaugh, at my suggestion, went there early in March this year, 

 and in spite of the early date found there among other things 

 Isoetes melanospora and Ainphianthiis pusillus, two species not 

 known outside of Georgia before. I visited the same place on June 

 8th, walking from Lineville, a railroad station about nine miles 

 away, and got many notes and a few specimens and photographs. 



The next day I went by automobile with a friend who lives near 

 the northwest corner of Randolph County, to look for a rocky 

 area indicated on the soil map, near the Tallapoosa River and 

 close to the northern edge of the county. On inquiring of people 

 living in the neighborhood we were directed to the site of a Flat 

 Rock Church, which had burned down last year, in the edge of 

 a cut-over woodland. At the site the reason for the name was not 

 apparent, for there was no rock in evidence, except fragments 

 scattered over the surface, as is usual in hilly regions. But I 

 thought I might as well make some notes of what vegetation was 

 in sight, so as to have something to show for the trip, and we 

 struck out at random on a little-used road through the woods. 

 And in a quarter of a mile or so we came to a sloping area of 

 gneiss, perhaps not more than 25 feet wide and 75 feet long, with 

 more Talinum Mengesii than I had ever seen in a similar area 

 before, and a few other characteristic plants, but a surprising 

 number of weeds, though the place was not close to any house or 

 field. 



It is perhaps hardly necessary to remark that on all flat rocks, 

 whether granite or other, there is a considerable diversity of plant 

 associations, which could be treated separately in a very detailed 

 study. The smoothest areas may have no vegetation visible to the 

 naked eye, or a sparse covering of crustose lichens, or small mosses. 

 Cracks and crevices give larger plants a foothold, and there are 

 often shallow depressions produced by weathering. Some of these 

 hold water long enough to support aquatic or semi-aquatic plants 

 like Isoetes and Amphianthus, while others are dry most of the 

 time, and occupied principally by such little plants as Diamorpha. 

 Soil tends to accumulate in the pools and pockets, and around the 

 edges of the rocks where it disappears beneath the surface; and 



