196 HARPER 



1902. Known also from Sumter, Lee, Bryan, Charlton, 

 Clinch, and Lowndes Counties, mostly around ponds. 

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

 L. glandulosa Walt., PI. Car. 88. 1788. 



coffee: Ocmulgee River swamp opposite Lumber City, 



Sept. 11, 1903. Also in Americus, along Muckalee Creek. 

 South Carolina to Illinois and Texas, sometimes a weed. 

 L. microcarpa Mx., Fl. 1 : 88. 1803. 



berrien : In places where the Lafayette formation is apparent- 

 ly absent, west and southwest of Tifton, September 1902. 

 (See pp. 1 10-11 2). Also in Johnson, Dooly, Sumter, Lee, 

 Dougherty, and Early Counties in the Lower Oligocene 

 region, apparently always in the same relation to the 

 Lafayette formation. 

 North Carolina to South Florida and Mississippi ( ?) (but not 

 reported from Alabama), in the coastal plain. Also in the 

 Bahamas (Britton.) 



ISNARDIA L., Sp. PI. 120. 1753. 

 I. palustris L., 1. c. 



I Shallow ponds, bulloch and berrien. Widely distributed 

 over the state, commonly a weed in ditches. Fl. all summer.. 

 Cosmopolitan, but natural range uncertain. 

 MELASTOMACEJE. 

 RHEXIA L., Sp. PI. 346. 1753. 

 R. Alifanus Walt., Fl. Car. 130. 1788. 



R. glabella Mx., Fl. 1 : 222. 1803. (See Bull. Torrey Club 

 33:238. 1906.) 



Moist or intermediate pine-barrens; common throughout the- 

 pine-barren region of Georgia. Fl. June-Aug. The hand- 

 somest species of the genus. 

 North Carolina to northern Florida and Louisiana, in the 

 coastal plain, nearly confined to the pine-barrens. 

 R. stricta Pursh, Fl. 258. 1814. 



Moist pine-barrens and ponds, appling, coffee (715), irwin, 

 d 00 ly, and doubtless elsewhere. (Inigoi and 1902 I noted 

 what I took to be -R. Virginica at many other stations in 



