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RUBIACEjE. 

 GALIUM L., Sp. PI. 105. 1753. 

 G. uniflorum Mx., Fl. 1:79. 1803. 



In rich soil at the inland edge o"f our territory, wilcox : Upper 

 Seven Bluffs; dooly: Around lime-sink east of Wenona. 

 Fl. May. Not seen nearer the coast, but extends inland to 

 Sumter, Glascock, and Clarke Counties (see Bull. Torrey 

 • Club 27:340. 1900). 

 South Carolina to Texas. 

 G. hispidulum Mx., 1. c. 



Sand-hills and hammocks, bulloch (966), coffee, irwin, 



thomas. Also farther inland. 

 New Jersey (?) to central Florida and Louisiana (?), in the 



coastal plain. 

 Leaf-anatomy discussed by Kearney, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 

 5:506-507. /. go. 1901. 

 G. pilosum Ait., Hort. Kew. 1:145. 1789. 



Dry pine-barrens, etc. bulloch {947), tattnall, colquitt. 

 Widely distributed in the Eastern United States. 

 DIODIAL., Sp. PI. 104. 1753. 

 D. teres Walt., Fl. Car. 87. 1788. 



Spermacoce hyssopifolia J. E. Smith, Abbot's Insects of Ga. 



75- P^ 38- 1797- 

 One of our commonest roadside and railroad weeds. Grows 



in dry exposed places all over the state. On Altamaha Grit 



outcrops in tattnall possibly indigenous, Fl. May— Oct. 

 Widely distributed in the Eastern United States, but natural 



range and habitat uncertain. 

 D. sp. (near D. Virginiana, but probably undescribed). 



berrien: Margin of shallow pine-barren pond near Tifton, 



Sept. 26, 1902 (1682). 



RICHARDIA L., Sp. PI. 330. 1753. 



R. SCABRA L., 1. C. 



Streets of Collins, June 25,1 903 . Common in cultivated ground 

 in Sumter, Lowndes, and some other counties in other parts 

 of the coastal plain. 



A native of the tropics, naturalized in the coastal plain from 

 South Carolina to Florida and Mississippi. 



