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Outside of the specimens from western New York the only 

 specimens from "the Manual range" in the larger herbaria are: 

 (i) Delaware City, Delaware, collected by Commons. The 

 plant is said to be "rare" and to grow in "shallow ditches." 

 Specimens from this collection are in the Gray Herbarium, and 

 in the herbariums of the N. Y. Botanical Garden, Philadelphia 

 Academy of Sciences and Missouri Botanical Garden; (2) 

 Vicinity of Cape Henry, Virginia, at the Smithsonian Institution; 



(3) Eight miles west of Jonesboro, Union County, Illinois, on 

 the Mississippi, collected by Dr. Vasey, many years ago. Speci- 

 mens are at the Missouri Botanical Garden and Gray Herbarium ; 



(4) St. Francis River, Missouri and vicinity; one specimen 

 collected by Widmann in 1895, and three by Trelease in 1897, 

 are all at the Missouri Botanical Garden. Mr. Chas. C. Deam 

 writes that it is not known from Indiana, where it would be 

 expected if the western New York plants are to be considered 

 as part of a Mississippi Valley flora. 



From the above it will be noted not only how rare the species 

 is in the northern United States, but also that there is no record 

 of its collection for nearly twenty-five years. I very much 

 doubt whether a specimen from the northern United States 

 exists in any private collection in the country. I know that it 

 is a species that I have been vainly hoping to get for many years. 

 It is interesting also to note that a large part of the material 

 collected is either sterile or in poor condition, and the old 

 Bradley specimens are the best ones seen. 

 New York City. 



A NOTE FROM THE OKEFINOKEE SWAMP 



By E. Eugene Barker 



During the Easter Vacation of the Spring of 1922, a party 

 of professors and students from the University of Georgia 

 visited the Okefinokee Swamp. Headquarters were made at 

 Billey's Island, where the Hebard Cypress Company very 

 kindly afforded the party accommodations at the boarding-house 

 for their employees. On April 11, a trip was made by boat to 

 Floyd's Island, where the night was spent in camp, the party 

 returning next day. In order to reach this island it was necessary 



