258 HARPER 



evidently known to LeConte, but does not seem to have 

 been given a tenable name in his writings. 

 H. sp. 



What is probably a totally different species, identical with one 

 which is frequent in the Lower Oligocene region, was ob- 

 served in the Ocmulgee River swamp near Barrow's Bluff, 

 coffee County, May 14, 1904, but not in flower. 



MANFRED A Sal., Gen. PI. Fragm. 78. 1866. 



M. Virginica (L.) Jackson, Ind. Kew. 2 :i6i. 1894; Rose, Contr. 

 U. S. Nat. Herb. 5 :15s. 1899. 



Agave Virginica L., Sp. PI. 323. 1753. 



Rock outcrops in tattnall and dodge, and dry pine-barrens 

 in colquitt. Fl. June-July. More common farther in- 

 land, all the way to the mountains, but nowhere abundant. 



Widely distributed in the Southeastern United States. 



HYPOXIS L., Syst. ed. 10, 2 :986. 1759. 

 H. juncea J. E. Smith, Spicil. 15. pi. 16. 1792. 



H. filifolia Ell., Sk. 1 : 397. 1817. 



Montgomery: Outer base of sand-hills of Gum Swamp Creek 

 west of Erick, Sept. 10, 1903; coffee: Intermediate pine- 

 barrens near Bushnell Junction, May 10, 1904. Fl. May- 

 Sept. Accompanied at the first locality by Sporobolus 

 Curtissii, which frequently grows with it in the flat country 

 toward the coast. 



South Carolina to Florida and Mississippi, in the pme-barrens. 

 Also in the Bahamas {Northrop). 



HJEMODORACEiE. 



GYROTHECA Sal., Trans. Hort. Soc. 1 :327. 1812. 



^G. tinctoria (Walt.) Sal., 1. c. (See Torreya 1 133-34. 1901.) 



.Branch-swamps, etc. ; not common, coffee, wilcox, irwin. 

 Fl. June— July. More characteristic of other parts of the 

 pine-barrens, ranging inland to Sumter County and coast- 

 ward to Camden. 



Massachusetts to South Florida and Mississippi, in the coastal 

 plain. Also in the West Indies (?). 



