quent; while in central and northwestern Georgia it is more common, and it occurs, though locally, in middle Tennessee. FOTHERGILLA MONTICOLA Ashe.-The recent discovery of this local shrub at Chapel Hill, N. C., makes another station for it about I50 miles east of any previously reported locality. It grows there on a rocky hillside with Rhododendron Catawlbiense Mx., and the chestnut oak. This is also the most eastward station for RRhododendron Catawlbiense Mx. Dr. J. K. Small reported

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... mountain as being the most eastward station, but Chapel Hill is 140 miles further east, and has an elevation iooo feet less than that of Crowder's mountain, being only 500 feet above sea level. The Systematic Flora (2: 42) gives the plant as occurring only at high elevations. This rhododendron is also found abundantly along the Oconneechee hills, twelve miles northwest of Chapel Hill, and at a slightly higher elevation. With it at this place is Aconitum reclinatum Gray, one of the most local species of the genus, and hitherto supposed to be confined to higher elevations, 5000-6500