198 HARPER 



Montgomery: Margin of pond in sand-hills of Little Ocmulgee 

 River opposite Lumber City, Sept. 10, 1903 (ig8p). Not 

 seen elsewhere. 



North Carolina to Florida (?), Illinois, and Louisiana, in the 

 coastal plain. 



MALAPOENNA Adans., Fam. 2 1447. 1763. 

 M. geniculata (Walt.) Court., Mem. Torrey Club 5 : 164. 1894. 

 In and around ponds ; rare. Montgomery (with the preceding), 

 coffee, Irwin (1422). Also in Bryan and Glynn Counties, 

 in the flat pine-barren region. Not seen in flower. 

 Virginia (?) to Florida and Louisiana, in the coastal plain. 

 Also in Tennessee (Gattinger) . The range of this is greatly 

 in need of study. 



PERSEA Gaert. f. Fr. & Sem. 3 : 22. 1805. 



P. pubescens (Pursh] Sarg., Silva N. A. 5:7. pi. 302. 1895. 



"Sweet Bay." 



Normally in non-alluvial swamps; also to some extent in 



adjacent hammocks and alluvial swamps, emanuel, tatt- 



nall, Montgomery (with the preceding, and elsewhere), 



DODGE, TELFAIR, COFFEE (2048), IRWIN, BERRIEN, THOMAS. 



Varies in size from a shrub to a tree over a foot in diameter 

 and 60 to 75 feet tall. Not common farther inland, but 

 frequent in the flat country. 



Virginia to Florida and Mississippi, in the coastal plain. 



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

 5 : 489. 1901. 



CACTACE^. 

 OPUNTIA Mill.,Gard. Diet. ed. 7. 1759. 

 0. vulgaris Mill., Gard. Diet. ed. 8. 1768. Prickly Pear. 



Sand-hills and hammocks, bulloch, emanuel, Montgomery, 

 dodge, coffee, wilcox, berrien. Fl. May-July. Widely 

 distributed over the state, even on rocky mountain-summits 

 in Middle and Northwest Georgia (Bull. Torrey Club 

 28 : 476. 1901), if it is all the same species. 



Massachusetts to Florida and Alabama, mostly within 300 

 miles of the coast. 



