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discoveries nearly nine years before.* Several species of more 

 climax tendencies, though nevertheless mainly "austroriparian" 

 in distribution, were found on the same day along the Flint 

 River where it cuts through the Pine Mountains in a series of 

 rather narrow gorges, and in the swamp of one of its tributaries, 

 Cane Creek, on the north side of the mountains about two miles 

 east of Woodbury. 



The following annotated list of noteworthy plants also in- 

 cludes two species which were observed from a train between 

 Birmingham and Pell City, Alabama, on June 4. 



Halesia diptera L. Several unmistakable specimens (with full- 

 grown fruit) of this little tree were seen on the banks of the Flint 

 River in Meriwether County, Georgia, at the southeastern corner 

 of an amphitheater-like valley about three miles in diameter 

 known as "the Cove." It was not known outside of the coastal 

 plain before, though Dr. Mohr had reported it from the vicinity 

 of Auburn, Ala.,t which is pretty close to the fall-line. 



Osmanthus americanus (L.) B. & H. Common in a wet ravine 

 in the Pine Mountains near Nebula, a small station a few miles 

 south of Warm Springs. This species was entirely new to the 

 known flora of Middle Georgia, and even in Alabama I had not 

 seen it so far above the fall-line. % Its leaves at this station were 

 rather narrower than they usually are in its favorite habitat, 

 coastal plain hammocks. Some of the trees bore an abundance 

 of young fruit. 



Ilex coriacea (Pursh) Chapm. (/. lucida T. & G.). In the same 

 ravine; not common, but some of the bushes were over ten feet 

 tall, which is about as large as this species ever grows. This does 

 not seem to' have been reported from outside of the coastal plain 

 before, though Dr. Mohr cited specimens from one of the fall- 

 line counties of Alabama, not very far from this new station. 



Persea pubescens (Pursh) Sarg. Seen in one mountain ravine 



in Alabama, and in two or three in Georgia, both near the Flint 



River and near Nebula. Unmistakable specimens were collected 



near the latter place on June 8. Dr. Mohr knew this in Alabama 



*See Bull. Torrey Club 30: 294, 326. 1903. 

 tContr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 6: 66. 1901. 

 JSee Bull. Torrey Club 33: 536. 1906. 



