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More common in the upper third of the coastal plain, and in 

 Middle Georgia, where it flowers May-September. Also in 

 Glynn County near Brunswick. 

 Widely distributed in the Southeastern United States, also 

 in Mexico and South America, but not everywhere native. 



C. Purshii DC, Prodr. 2 : 124. 1825. 



Dry and intermediate pine-barrens ; frequent but not abundant. 



BULLOCH (557), TATTNALL, MONTGOMERY, COFFEE, IRWIN, 



colquitt, thomas. Fl. May-June. Inland to Sumter 

 County and coastward to Ware. 

 South Carolina to South Florida and Louisiana, confined to 

 the pine-barrens or nearly so. 



BAPTISIA Vent., Dec. Gen. Nov., 9. 1808. 



B. perfoliata (L.) R. Br. in Ait. f. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 3 15. 1811. 

 "Gopher Weed." 



Pericaulon perfoliatum Raf., New Fl. N. A. 2 151. 1836. 



Dry pine-barrens and sand-hills, abundant in the eastern part 

 of our territory, screven, bulloch, emanuel, tattnall, 

 Montgomery, telfair (eastern part, rare), appling (two or 

 three miles north of Baxley only), coffee (extreme north- 

 eastern corner). Fl. April- June. Coastward to the upper 

 edge of Bryan County, and inland to the fall-line sand-hills 

 of Georgia and South Carolina. Not definitely known from 

 the intervening Eocene region, or farther west than Telfair 

 County. Why its range is so restricted (much like that of 

 Elliottia) is an unsolved problem. 



For description of some of its peculiar morphological features 

 see Gray, Am. Jour. Sci. III. 2 1462. 1871; Ravenel, Proc. 

 A. A. A. S. 20 1391-393. 1872. 



B. lanceolata (Walt.) Ell., Sk. i 1467. 1817. 



Dry pine-barrens and sand-hills, principally the former. 

 Common in all the pine-barren region of Georgia, and as far 

 inland as Americus. Fl. March-April. 



North Carolina to northern Florida and Alabama (Baldwin 

 Co.), in the coastal plain, very nearly confined to the pine- 

 barrens. 



