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as this long-lost species of Nuttall's,* and a few years later Mr. 

 Henry Eggert collected immature specimens of the same thing 

 in the same general region. f In the spring of 1901 Mr. T. G. 

 Harbison found it "in shallow soil in the glades and along rocky 

 streams" on Sand Mountain in Marshall County, Alabama; J 

 and in the winter of 1905-6 I saw it in Marshall, DeKalb and 

 Cherokee Counties,! always on Carboniferous sandstone along 

 streams on the plateaus, as my predecessors had found it. 



Up to 1903 the only known stations for this plant (excluding 

 those in New Jersey, Louisiana and Texas as unknown) were in 

 the mountains of Alabama. In that year, however, I collected 

 it on outcrops of Altamaha Grit in Tattnall and Dooly Counties 

 in the coastal plain of Georgia, || and in 1906 I saw it in similar 

 situations in Washington and Coffee Counties, in the same 

 region.^ At each of these places some of its associates were the 

 same as in the mountains of Alabama, although the general 

 aspect of the surrounding country was very different. 



The only known exposure of Altamaha Grit in Florida is at 

 Rock Hill, which is about 4)^ miles southeast of Chipley; and 

 up to last fall this interesting spot does not seem to have ever 

 been visited by a botanist.** Having heard something of this 

 place through geological literature, I visited it on Sept. 24, 1910, 

 to see how it compared with similar places in Georgia. 



*See Bull. Torrey Club 24: 28. 1897; Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 6: 79, 771. 1901. 



1 1 saw one of Eggert's specimens in the herbarium of the New York Botanical 

 Garden several years ago, but it has since been misplaced or destroyed, and I do 

 not remember the exact data on the label. 



JBiltmore Bot. Stud, i: 153. 1902. 



§Torreya 6: 112, 114, 115. 1906. 



II See Bull. Torrey Club 32: 168. 1905; Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci. 17: 42, 43, 146. 

 1906. These two localities have since been included in the new counties of 

 Toombs and Crisp, respectively. In 1900 (Bull. Torrey Club 27: 423) I inadver- 

 tently designated this species as an inhabitant of moist pine-barrens in Sumter 

 County, Georgia; but my specimens proved to be nothing but the common C. 

 nudala. 



. 1[See Torreya 6: 243, 244. 1906. 



**In the Plant World for April, 1902 (5: 71), Mr. A. H. Curtiss reports having 

 collected Cheilanthes Alabamensis "on top of a tower like rock" at Cedar Grove, a 

 few miles south of Chipley. There happens to be a tower-like rock on one side of 

 Rock Hill, but there are no ferns on it, and Mr. Curtiss's rock must have been of 

 a very different sort, probably limestone 



