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CUTHBERTIA Small, PI. 237. 1903. 

 C. graminea Small, 1. c. 



Tradescentia rosea Vent., in part. 



Sand-hills, bulloch (913), emanuel (817), tattnall, Mont- 

 gomery, telfair, coffee, wilcox. Fl. May-July. Also 

 on the fall-line sand-hills in Richmond County, where it was 

 discovered. 

 Maryland (?) to Florida, Missouri (?), and Texas (?), in the 

 coastal plain. 



ERIOCAULACEiE. 

 ERIOCAULON L., Sp. PI. 87. 1753. 

 E. decangulare L., 1. c. Buttons. "White-heads." (See 

 Plate XXIV, Fig. 1). 



One of the most abundant and characteristic plants of moist 

 pine-barrens; more rarely in swamps. Common throughout 

 the pine-barrens of Georgia, and a little farther inland 

 almost to Sandersville and Americus. Fl. June-Sept. 

 New Jersey to central Florida and Texas in the coastal plain, 

 and locally inland in the mountains of North Carolina, 

 Tennessee, and Alabama. 

 Anatomy discussed by Holm, Bot. Gaz. 31:17-37. /. 1-3. 

 Jan. iqoi. 



E. lineare Small, Fl. 236. 1903. (See Plate XXIII, and XXV, 

 Fig. 2). 

 With the preceding in our territory, and equally abundant 

 wherever it grows, but as it is almost invisible except in 

 spring, I have not noted it so often. (See Bull. Torrey 

 Club 32 : 461-463. /. 4. 1905). bulloch (8 30, type, collected 

 in a branch-swamp, an exceptional habitat), tattnall, 



MONTGOMERY (2I46), COFFEE, WILCOX, IRWIN, BERRIEN. Fl. 



April-May. Inland to Sumter County. 

 Not yet known outside of Georgia, (see Torreya 5 1114. 1905). 

 E. compressum Lam., Encyc. 3 1276. 1789. 



Cypress and other ponds; not rare, screven, tattnall, 



coffee, wilcox, irwin, berrien, and doubtless elsewhere. 



Flowers in March and April, and easily overlooked later in 



the season. 

 New Jersey to central Florida and Texas, in the coastal plain. 



