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Sumter and Thomas Counties, outside of our territory, I have 

 seen it in places where it cannot possibly be indigenous. 

 Said to range from Virginia to Florida and Texas in the coastal 

 plain, and throughout the tropics. 



ASCLEPIADACE^. 

 ANANTHERIX Nutt., Gen. i : 169. 18 18. 

 A. connivens (Baldw.) Feay; Wood, Class-Book, 594. 186 1. 

 Moist pine-barrens, rather rare. (See Bull. Torrey Club, 



31:24, 25. 1904.) COFFEE (1426), IRWIN, BERRIEN, DOOLY, 



colquitt. Fl. July. Also nearer the coast in Charlton 

 and Lowndes Counties, and in central Florida, but not known 

 farther inland. 



ASCLEPIAS L., Sp. PI. 214. 1753. 

 A. cinerea Walt., Fl. Car. 105. 1788. 



Dry or intermediate pine-barrens, frequent throughout, but 

 nowhere abundant. Fl. June-July. Inland to Johnson, 

 Dooly, and Lee Counties, and coastward nearly to the south- 

 eastern corner of the state. 

 South Carolina to central Florida, in the pine-barrens. 



A. Michauxii Decne. in DC. Prodr. 8 : 569. 1844. 



Intermediate pine-barrens ; scarce ; rarely more than one or 



two specimens visible at a time, bulloch, berrien. Fl. 



April- June. 

 South Carolina to northeastern Florida and Mississippi, in the 



pine-barrens. 



A. verticillata L., Sp. PI. 217. 1753. 



Dry pine-barrens ; rather rare, emanuel, Montgomery. More 



common farther inland, almost anywhere in the upper parts 



of the state, where it flowers all summer. 

 Widely distributed in the Eastern United States. 

 Root-anatomy discussed by W. E. Britton, Bull. Torrey Club 



30 : 608—609. I 9°3- 

 A. perennis Walt., Fl. Car. 107. 1788. 



Montgomery: Oconee River swamp near Mount Vernon, 



June 27, 1903. More common in similar situations in the 



