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humus than it usually tolerates in Georgia. Chamaecyparis was 

 seen only in bogs in the sand-hills, extending a considerable 

 distance northeast qf Hamlet * but not more than ten miles 

 southeastward. Magnolia glauca, it is scarcely necessary to 

 remark, appeared in all the swamps. 



In flat damp soil between the little stations of Pates and Alma 

 in Robeson County were seen quite a number of plants which 

 are chiefly confined to the pine-barrens, such as Lycopodimn 

 alopeciu'oides, L. caroliniammi, Andropogoii corynibosiis, Cavipii- 

 losiis aromatiais, RyncJwspora axillaris, Eriocaidoii decangidare, 

 Tofieldia glabra, Sarraccnia flava, Ilex glabra, Eiipatorium 

 rotiindifolium, Arnica acaidis and Marshallia graininifolia. The 

 Tofieldia is of rather local distribution, being known only from 

 the coastal plain of the Carolinas. Many of the specimens of it 

 were still in flower. In ditches along the railroad near the same 

 place Iris tripctala was quite common, but I was unable to 

 determine its natural habitat. 



Both species of Zenobia, which were previously strangers to 

 me (having perhaps never been collected in Georgia), were seen 

 occasionally along here. One of them had already been reported 

 from this county by Mr. C. L. Boynton.f 



. In several creek swamps between Red Banks and Laurinburg 

 I noticed Nymphaca sagittifolia, quite abundant and in excellent 

 condition, most of the specimens showing both floating and sub- 

 mersed leaves and fruit. The geographical distribution of this 

 species is not well understood. It has been reported from the 

 vicinity of Fayetteville in a neighboring county by Mr. Boyn- 

 ton,| and it was, of course, discovered in South Carolina. But 

 no one has ever seen it in Georgia, apparently, and at least one 

 of the Alabama stations mentioned in Mohr's Plant Life of Ala- 

 bama (the one in Tuscaloosa County) is in an artificial pond (as I 

 am informed by Dr. E. A. Smith, who found it there), so does 

 not count. 



Smilax Walteri, which, like NynipJiaea sagittifolia, seems to be 



* See Torreya 3 : 122. 1903. 



f Biltmore Bot. Stud, i : 146. 1902. 



X Biltmore Bot. Stud, i : 148. 1902. 



