FOOTNOTE

 5. The locality on Smith's label, "Pratts Ferry" (a locality well known to botanists then and today), given the practice of collectors of the 19th Century, must be interpreted as a very general locality. Smith's collection undoubtedly came from one of the Ketona Glades, the nearest of which is only 11 km away. A second collection cited in Baskin and Baskin (1984) as Petalostemon [Dalea] gattingeri, by Charles Mohr, was collected at or near Gallion, Hale County, in the Black Belt, which would be far south of all other populations and the only collection ever made from the Coastal Plain. While the UNA specimen appears, indeed, to be taxon gattingeri, as annotated by the Baskins and by Isely, the (unannotated) duplicates of Mohr's Hale County collection seen at MO and US are both, instead, Dalea purpurea. The latter species can still be found in the vicinity of Gallion (A. and S. 6902, UNA), where it occurs with D. candida Michx. ex Willd. (A. and S. 6901, UNA). The simplest explanation is that a mix-up occurred: one of Mohr's northern Alabama specimens of D. gattingeri (e.g., the Russell County collection cited by the Baskins) came to be mounted in error with a label belonging instead to his Hale County D. purpurea collection. Therefore, D. gattingeri should not be considered an element of the Coastal Plain flora, based on the available evidence.