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New N'ork Botanical Garden herbarium, whit li had been 

 collectetl h\- j. B. Hobdx- of an "Alabama Biological Sur\'ey" 

 part\- at Albertville in this couiUn' April 22, 18<J9. A visit there 

 on April 30, 1928, disclosed that while the region is now largely 

 under culti\ation, colonies of the i)lant still persist on the banks 

 of Drum CVeck, 2\ miles northwest of the town. It grows in 

 mininiacid soil on ledges of a somewhat calcareous sandstone, 

 exposed where the stream has cut down into the surface of the 

 Sand Mountain plateau. 



Kf.xtuckv 



Franklin Co.- — The Gray Herbarium possesses a specimen 

 labeled "Frankfort. May" but without other data, and also 

 another, collected by Griswold, but lacking definite locality 

 and date. 



Garrard, Jessamine, and Mercer Counties. — Near the Ken- 

 tucky river, in these counties, Silene Wherryi grows on wooded 

 ravine-slopes, and locally on limestone ledges. Deep-colored 

 flowers are here the rule, and the soil reaction is neutral or 

 essentially so. 



Missouri 



Phelps Co. — A specimen of Silene in the herbarium of the 

 New York Botanical Garden, collected by J. H. Kellogg at 

 Jerome, in this county in the Ozarks, April 28, 1914, proves to 

 represent the new species. 



Pulaski Co.— On April 14, 1928, Mr. J. E. Benedict Jr. found 

 the same species 10 miles northeast of Waynesville. Its color 

 is deep pink, and the soil reaction is minimacid. 



North Carolina 



Macon Co. — A specimen collected by T. G. Harbison at 

 Highlands, in May 1912, preserved in the Gray Herbarium, 

 shows the characters of 5. Wherryi. 



Tennessee 



The only Silene seen from this state is typical S. caroliniana, 

 kindly sent to me by Professor H. M. Jennison from Elizabeth- 

 ton, in Carter County, far over to the east. Search through 

 the central part of the state, however, would no doubt disclose 



