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DuRING THE SUMMER OF IQOI 285 
Bulloch County, with most interesting results. During the first few 
days of my stay there I had heard some mention of a ‘“ Rosemary 
Church,” several miles away, and on asking my friends if it did not 
derive its name from some plant, I was answered in the affirmative, 
and was given an interesting description of the place, but it was 
not until June 28 that I had an opportunity to visit it. Rosemary 
Church is situated on the left bank of Fifteen Mile Creek, in 
Emanuel County, among sand-hills of quite a different type from 
those seen elsewhere. The sand here is whiter than that of the 
ordinary sand-hills, and is said to be deeper, but as far as we 
know at present it is of the same Columbia formation. Ceratiola 
ericoides, the ‘‘rosemary,” from which the place takes its name, 
is the most characteristic plant. The flora is not so rich as that 
of the ordinary sand-hills, but is composed mostly of different 
species, some of which will be mentioned in the latter part of this 
paper. The absence of grasses is a noteworthy feature. These 
rosemary sand-hills doubtless represent the extreme of xerophytic 
conditions in this region. My numbers 975-984 were secured on 
this trip to this rosemary sand-hills in Emanuel County, and 
numbers 944-974 and 985-988 were collected in Bulloch during 
the remainder of my stay there. 
This eastern portion of the coastal plain of Georgia was quite 
familiar ground to Bartram, Michaux, Elliott, Baldwin, Beyrich and 
other early botanists, but has been considerably neglected since 
their time. After seeing many of the species of these authors in 
their type regions I found that I was able to understand them 
much better than before. This kind of study is much more satis- 
factory in many cases than any amount of examination of type 
specimens, too many of which are poorly preserved or accom- 
panied by insufficient data. 
On the morning of July 3 I left Bulloch County and drove 
over to Graymont on my way to the southwestern part of the 
state, stopping there again to collect a few plants (nos. 989-993). 
At Stillmore I also had a few hours to wait, and collected there 
numbers 994-996. During the afternoon I proceeded to Collins, 
in Tattnall County, where I remained until the next morning (nos. 
997-1002). Collins seems to be in the same belt of flat country 
as Waycross, though it is considerably higher (235 feet above sea 
