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far by water) , was quite unexpected. It grows in the gorge of the 

 Flint River, at about the same place already mentioned under 

 Halesia diptera, on various trees, principally Quercus alba. Some 

 of it was forty or fifty feet up in the air, and some low enough 

 to be reached from the ground, but it was not at all abundant. 

 It happened to be in bloom at the time I saw it, and it is probably 

 holding its own pretty well. 



Lachnocaulon anceps (Walt.) Morong. In the moist meadow 

 near Woodbury; rather rare. Previously known only from the 

 coastal plain and Lookout Mountain.* 



Rhynchospora rariflora (Mx.) Ell. With the preceding, not 

 rare. Previously known only from the coastal plain, but its 

 occurrence here is perhaps not so surprising since it has recently 

 been reported from New Jersey. f 



Panicum gymnocarpon Ell. In the swamp of Cane Creek, 

 Meriwether County, Georgia. Previously known only from the 

 coastal plain, from Georgia to Texas. With it I noticed two 

 other species of somewhat similar distribution (though already 

 known from a few stations outside of the coastal plain), namely, 

 Commelina hirtella Vahl and Trachelospermum difforme (Walt.) 

 Gray. 



Anchistea virginica (L.) Presl. Seen from the train, in a sort 

 of meadow just east of Brompton, St. Clair County, Alabama. 

 The only other stations between the glaciated region and coastal 

 plain on record for this species seem to be those in Cherokee and 

 Chilton Counties, Alabama, and Pike County, Georgia, described 

 in my earlier papers. 

 Tallahassee, Florida 



A FOSSIL FIGt 



By T. D. a. Cockerell 



Among some specimens collected by my wife at Station 14, 

 in the Miocene shales of Florissant, I find two which, on careful 

 inspection, prove to be figs. The genus Ficus has been recog- 



*See Torreya 6: 114; Ann. N. Y Acad. Sci 17: 268. 1906. 



tW. Stone, Torreya 8: 16-17. 1908. 



X Illustrated with the aid of the Catherine McManes fund. 



