RHEXIA MARIANA L. Sp. Pl. 346. 1753.
As far as I have observed, Mariana prefers sandy places at no great distance from the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, although it does occur at many points in the middle districts of the Southern States, and is said to extend up the Mississippi Valley to Missouri. The first altitude worthy of note at which I found the species was at about 30o meters on Stone Mountain, Georgia. The following year, 1895, I collected a few specimens of a delicate form, apparently referable to this species, on the mountains near Ellijay, Gilmer County, Georgia, at an altitude of about 400 meters. The leaves of this form are thin, oval, ovate or elliptic
and short-petioled. Much to my surprise, on reaching the summit of Table Mountain, South Carolina, last summer, I found the typical state of the plant thriving at an altitude of almost moo meters.