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this region, and coastward, but it is probably all R. striata. 



■ This cannot be verified, however, without going over the 

 same ground again). Fl. summer. 



"South Carolina to Florida and Louisiana" (Mohr). "Georgia 

 and Florida" {Small). At any rate confined to the pine- 

 barrens. 



R. filiformis Small, Bull. Torrey Club 25 : 468. 1898. 



Chiefly in rather dry pine-barrens and in corresponding places 



on sand-hills, bulloch, tattnall, Montgomery, dodge, 



coffee, wilcox. Fl. all summer. Scattered over the 



whole pine-barren region of Georgia. 

 Reported only from Georgia and Florida, but doubtless has a 



wider range. 



R. Mariana L., Sp. PI. 346. 1753. 



coffee: Moist pine-barrens and margins of ponds, along 



Seventeen Mile Creek north and east of Douglas, July, 1902. 



In the vicinity of Americus it flowers June-September. 

 Long Island to Florida, Missouri, and Texas, mostly in the 



coastal plain. 



R. ciliosa Mx., Fl. 1:221. 1803. 



Moist pine-barrens and sand-hill bogs, dodge, appling, 



COFFEE, WILCOX, IRWIN, COLQUITT, THOMAS (il 1 /^), DECATUR. 



Fl. June-Sept. Occurs nearly throughout the pine-barrens 

 of Georgia, also in Pike County, Middle Georgia (Bull. 

 Torrey Club 30 : 294. 1903). 

 Maryland to central Florida and Louisiana, mostly in the pine- 

 barrens. 



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



Moist pine-barrens, bulloch (890), emanuel, tattnall, 



DODGE, COFFEE {JI2), WILCOX, IRWIN, BERRIEN, COLQUITT. 



Fl. June— July. Also coastward, but rarely farther inland. 

 North Carolina to northern Florida and Louisiana, in the pine- 

 barrens. 



LAURACEjE. 

 BENZOIN Fabr., Enum. PI. Hort. Helmst. ed. 2, 401. 1763. 

 B. melissaefolium (Walt.) Nees, Syst. 494. 1836. 



