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Rhode Island to Florida, in the coastal plain. Also reported 

 from Tennessee and Arkansas, but not Alabama. 

 P. nitida (Bartr.) BH. 



Moist pine-barrens, swamps (not muddy), ponds and ham- 

 mocks; common. Fl. March-April. Throughout the pine - 

 barren region of Georgia, and known from several places in 

 the upper fourth of the coastal plain, where the Columbia 

 sand is present. 



Virginia to central Florida and Louisiana, in the coastal plain. 

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

 Herb. 5:500-501. 1901. 

 P.jphillyreifolia (Hook.) DC, Prodr. 7 : 599. 1839. 



Figured in Hook. Ic. Plant. 2: 122. 1837; Lindl. Bot. Reg. 

 30: pi. 36. 1844. 



berrien: On Taxodium imbricarium in ponds and moist pine- 

 barrens between Sparks and Adel, May 7, 1904. More 

 frequent in the flat country, in Charlton, Lowndes, and 

 Brooks Counties, especially Lowndes, where it flowers in 

 February. 



Also occurs in West Florida and Mobile County, Alabama. 

 For a description of some of the unique features of this plant 

 see Torreya 2 : 21—22. 1903. 

 LEUCOTHOE D. Don., Edinb. New Phil. Jour. 17 : 159. 1834. 

 L. racemosa (L.) Gray, Man. ed. 2. 252. 1856. 



Mostly in and around creek-swamps; not common, emanuel, 



TATTNALL, COLQUITT (1(5/2). Fl. Spring. 



Massachusetts to Florida, Missouri, and Louisiana, mostly in 



the coastal plain. 

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



5 : 500. 1901. 

 L. elongata Small, Bull. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 1 : 284. 1899. 



In and around sand-hill ponds. Montgomery, berrien. 



Very similar to the preceding, and perhaps only a xerophytic 



modification of it. 

 Virginia to Florida, in the coastal plain. 



L. axillaris (Lam.) Don, 1. c. 



Non-alluvial creek-swamps; not common, coffee, berrien, 



