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C. graminifolia (Mx.) Nutt., Gen. 2:151. 1818. 



Dry pine-barrens, sand-hills, etc. ; frequent but not abundant. 



Fl. Aug.— Nov. Ranges nearly all over Georgia in dry sandy 



soil, like Ionactis and Solidago odor a. 

 Maryland to South Florida and Texas. Also in the Bahamas 



(Britton) . 



CARPHEPHORUS Cass., Bull. Soc. Philom. 1816: 198. 1816. 

 C. tomentosus (Mx.) T. & G., Fl. 2 : 66. 1841. 



Rather dry flat pine-barrens, not abundant, appling {1993), 

 pierce. Fl. September. Also in Wayne Co. in the flat 

 country, but never seen farther inland. 

 North Carolina to Florida (?), in the pine-barrens. 



C. Pseudo-Liatris Cass., 1. c. 



Liatris squamosa Nutt., Jour. Acad. Phila. 7:73. 1834. 



colquitt: Seen two or three times in moist pine-barrens near 

 Moultrie, September, 1902 (1668). Fl. Sept.-Oct. Not 

 known elsewhere in Georgia. 



South to West Florida, west to Louisiana (?), in the pine- 

 barrens. 



This species furnishes an interesting example of reduction of 

 transpiration by means of reduced scale-like cauline leaves, 

 which are rather rigid and closely set. Other characteristic 

 inhabitants of the pine-barrens of Georgia (not all of them 

 occurring in the Altamaha Grit region however) having a 

 somewhat similar habit are the three Asters mentioned 

 above, Carphephorus corymbosus (Nutt.) T. &. G., Trilisa 

 paniculata (Walt.) Cass., Tubiflora Carolinensis (Walt.) 

 Gmel., and Hypericum pilosum Walt. 



LACINIARIA Hill, Veg. Syst. 4:49. pi. 46. 1762. 

 L. elegans (Walt.) Kuntze, Rev. 1:349. 1891. 



Chiefly on sand-hills ; not abundant, coffee, irwin, berrien, 

 colquitt. Fl. Aug.-Oct. Also in the upper third of the 

 coastal plain. 

 Virginia to northern Florida, Missouri, and Texas, in the coastal 

 plain. 

 L. squarrosa (L.) Hill, 1. c. 



coffee: Dry pine-barrens east of Douglas, July 19, 1902, in 



