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had been kept. The southern Aletns was therefore left without 

 a name, and might have formed the basis for a new species had 

 it seemed best to found one on a single specimen not much ad- 

 vanced in the floral stage. Sometime after Small's Flora of the 

 Southeastern United States had been published I recalled the 

 Aletris and consulted the work to see if such a plant had been 

 described. This I found in the A. obovata Nash, whose habitat 

 is similar to that near Starkville : " In pine lands, Jacksonville, 

 Florida." The flowers seem rather more cylindrical than as de- 

 scribed in the Horida plant, and appear more like those o{ A. 

 farinosa, but as they are quite young, most of those in the 

 raceme unopened, their full character may not be well developed. 

 In all other respects I see no lack of application in the descrip- 

 tion, and conclude that A. obovaia should be looked for in the 

 pine lands of Mississippi. 



The names of the other plants collected on the same occasion 

 may be added. All except one, the Cormis, which grew by the 

 creek, were associated with the Aletris, and are given the same 

 habitat, " Flat pine-barrens, west of Trim-Cane Creek." They 

 are, as named in the botanies of the time : Gillciiia stipiilacea 

 Nutt., Psoralea eglandidosa Ell., (Enotliera fniticosa L., Corniis 

 stricta Lam., in low, swampy ground, P]ilox glabcrrima L., P. 

 aristata Michx., Scutellaria integrifolia L., Monarda ciliata L. 

 (now Blephilia ciliata), Pentstemon Icevigatus Soland., Cirsium 

 virgiinanmn L. 



The Psoralea is now placed with P. peduncidata (Mill.) Vail. 

 It has no trace of glands, even in bracts and calyx. On the 

 sheet of P. aristata, now included with P. pdosa, L., are two 

 specimens somewhat different in flowers, one more like the ordi- 

 nary form of the species, the other with narrower petals and 

 smaller flowers, the lobes of the aristate calyx remarkably long, 

 two or three times the length of the calyx tube, and much curled 

 and twisted when dry. It was doubtless this feature that led to 

 the identification with C. aristata. I find that in size of flowers, 

 breadth of segments of corolla, and pubescence or pilosity, plants 

 of P. pilosa in this region vary a good deal. 

 Chicago, III., October 26, 1906. 



