ARENARIA BREVIFOLIA Nutt.; T. & G. Fl. N.A. I : 180. 1838.
I have long suspected the occurrence of this, the rarest of our eastern American Arenarias, in North Carolina. In 1890 Mr. Heller collected fragmentary and imperfect specimens of an Arenari a in Rowan County. Some years later I found similar specimens on Dunn's Mountain, near Salisbury. During the
spring of 1896 I had an opportunity to visit Dunn's Mountain and found the species in full bloom just as it occurs on Stone Mountain, Georgia ; the plants from the two mountains are al most identical.