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which are common on or around Stone Mountain (as are Isocfes 

 mclanospora and AmpJiiatiiJuis, mentioned in an earlier para- 

 graph), seem to be here reported from Alabama for the first time. 

 On the other hand. Talinuin Mcngcsii seems to have its center of 

 distribution in Alabama (where it grows also on sandstone)." 



It is one of the great mysteries of nature how the species 

 known only on rock outcrops, most of them with no known means 

 of dissemination (except that wind might blow their seeds a 

 few feet or yards) could have found their way to isolated locali- 

 ties many miles from other similar habitats. But time is long, and 

 presumably in thousands of years several kinds of exceptional 

 opportunities that we have little conception of could occur once 

 or twice. Possibly tornadoes have been a factor in transporting 

 small smooth seeds that are not particularly adapted for wind 

 dispersal. 



University, Ala. 



Lucy Millington 



Liberty H. Bailey 



To the new country in southwestern Michigan in which I 

 was born and reared came Lucy A. Millington in the spring of 

 1876. It was reported she was a botanist, and this aroused my 

 curiosity. Long before that time I had borrowed a copy of Gray's 

 Field, Forest and Garden Botany, which I had studied by myself 

 in winter and the identical copy of which I still possess, and I 

 had waited for the first crocus to make the book real. I began 

 an herbarium. I had never seen a botanist except that Dr. W. J. 

 Beal had come to our village to lecture. Would I now have someone 

 to share my joy and to guide me through the difficult parts of the 

 book ? 



The ^klillingtons settled beyond "Dyckman's Woods" and thus 

 I would have additional reason to pass often through that en- 

 chanted place. Dyckman's Woods had not long been cut from the 



■^^ Dr. Mc\'augh writes me that he has found it in a few places in Georgia, 

 where it is less common than T. terctijoliuni, which is not definitely known 

 from Alabama, all the specimens hitherto referred to it in this state turning 

 out to be T. Mengcsii, according to Wolf's recent study referred to above. 



