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who discovered this species, must have gone into the region 

 somewhere to get it. See Bull. Torrey Club 32: 166, 167. 1905; 

 Torreya 5: 183, 184. 1905). 



Since the era of railroads several well-known botanists have 

 passed through portions of the Altamaha Grit country without 

 being aware of the fact, or stopping to make any notes or 

 collections. Among these were Canby in 1869, Gray in 1875, 

 Kearney in 1893 and 1895, and Small in 1895. 



Of botanists now living, Prof. S. M. Tracy seems to have been 

 the first to make any collections in this region. In the summer 

 of 1890 he spent a short time in Southwest Georgia, and made a 

 considerable collection, principally of grasses and sedges, for the 

 U. S. Department of Agriculture, near Cycloneta (Irby P. O.) 

 in Irwin County. These specimens are now in several of the 

 leading herbaria of the country, but none of them that I have seen 

 are accompanied by any indication of habitat. At least one 

 (Eryngium Ludovicianum) has already been cited in botanical 

 literature. 1 



In 1893 Dr. Charles Mohr, while doing some field work for the 

 Division of Forestry of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, 

 collected a few specimens in Dodge County near Eastman, among 

 them Gerardia divaricata (?) , Dicerandra linearifolia, and C lino- 

 podium Carolinianum. 



On August 14, 1900, Messrs. C. L. Pollard and W. R. Maxon, 

 from the U. S. National Herbarium, entered the Altamaha Grit 

 region for a short distance in Worth County, collecting a few 

 specimens near Poulan. Up to the present writing these do not 

 seem to have been distributed, but one of them, Eryngium 

 Ludovicianum, was cited at the same place as Prof. Tracy's speci- 

 men of the same species. 



Mr. A. H. Curtiss of Jacksonville, Fla., has done considerable 

 work in Georgia, particularly on his last trip through the state, 

 in 1 90 1. From June 24 to 27 of that year he was in Berrien and 

 Coffee Counties, collecting Panicum erectifolium (no. 6817), 

 Xyris Baldwiniana (no. 6818), Lobelia Boykinii (no. 6819), 

 Amsonia rigida (no. 6820, distributed as A. Tabernamontana) , 

 Eleocharis Torreyana (no. 6821, distributed as E. microcarpa), 

 1 See Coult. & Rose, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 7: 49. 1901. 



