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the meanwhile Mr. Holt made a pencil sketch of one of the 

 flowers, from the specimen he first gathered, and that has helped 

 me to describe it after the flowers of the plants taken for her- 

 barium specimens had lost their shape by pressing. On Sunflay 

 his sister. Miss Olivia Holt, who came out to the farm for a few 

 hours with an automobile part5^ took a specimen back to Mont- 

 gomery with her, and the next day, without any suggestion 

 from me, had a professional photographer make the photograph 

 which is used herewith. This shows the appearance of the 

 plant better than words can, and makes a description almost 

 unnecessary, except for size and colors. 



On Mr. Golsan's farm the new species seemed to be the only 

 Hexastylis present, but on Sunday we found both it and H. 

 arifoUa fairly common in rich woods along the Bridge Creek 

 bluffs, and there we soon learned to distinguish the two species 

 by their odor. On Monday, the 19th, I went with Mr. Golsan 

 and Mr. Holt south from Booth several miles across the hills 

 of the Eutaw formation, and there we found only H. arifolia. 

 Again a few weeks later, when I was walking part of the way 

 from Montgomery to Tuscaloosa on June 10 and 11, I found only 

 H. arifolia in rich woods near the southeastern corner of Autauga 

 Count}/, and in similar situations in southeastern Bibb County. 

 Although //. speciosa may turn up later in other counties, for it 

 can easily be mistaken for H. arifolia at other seasons than spring, 

 or even in spring if one does not look closely — for its flowers 

 do not differ much in color from the decaying tree leaves among 

 which they rest- — it seems likely that we have one more to add 

 to the rather long list of very distinct and handsome plants 

 which are more abundant in Alabama than anywhere else, if 

 not confined to the state. (Examples are Mag7iolia macrophylla, 

 Illicium Floridanum, Neviusia Alahamensis, Hydrangea querci- 

 folia, Polygala Boykinii, Croton Alahamensis, Aesculus Pavi-a, 

 A. parviflora, and Laciniaria polyphylla.) 



A few other plants found in the same neighborhood deserve 

 special mention. The references to Dr. Mohr of course mean 

 Charles Mohr's Plant Life of Alabama (1901). 



Rhynchospora Grayii Kunth. On dry sandy uplands near 

 Bridge Creek. Known to Dr. Mohr only from Baldwin and 

 Mobile Counties, near the coast. 



Lachnocaulon anceps (Walt.) Morong. Sand}' bogs near heads 



