86 Harper: BoraANicAL EXPLORATIONS IN GEORGIA 
level). The rolling country appears again immediately west of 
Collins, however. 
On the 4th I resumed my journey, and after traveling almost 
due west for 126 miles, mostly through rolling pine-barrens, 
stopped at Leslie, in Sumter County, where I had spent some time 
the previous year, though later inthe season. My brother had pre- 
ceded me there by several days. We made Leslie our headquar- 
ters until the latter part of August, in the meanwhile making several 
trips of greater or less extent to various places south and west of 
there. Within easy walking distance of Leslie, in the counties of 
Sumter, Lee and Dooly, I collected numbers 1003-1017, 1025-— 
1082 and 1102-1126 in July and 1241-1247 in August. Num- 
bers 1018-1024 and 1127-1146 were collected in and near Amer- 
icusin July. 
On July 17 we started on a journey to the Chattahoochee 
River, about seventy miles west, passing through the counties of 
Webster and Stewart, and into the terrane of the Cretaceous forma- 
tions, corresponding to the ‘ Central Prairie Region’’ of Alabama. 
The prairie feature seems to be lacking in Georgia, however, this 
region being more hilly than any other portion of the coastal plain 
of the state, some of the hills rising to a height of about 700 feet 
above sea-level. As far as I am aware, nothing has ever been pub- 
lished on the flora of this Cretaceous region of Georgia, beyond a 
few references by Bartram, who passed through the upper part of 
it in the summer of 1776, and described the natural features of the 
country in his “Travels,” published several years later, Unfor- 
tunately a large proportion of this region is now under culti- 
vation or has been otherwise tampered with, making the study 
of its natural floral conditions rather difficult, and in our short 
stay I did not have time to wander far from the highways of travel 
in order to study the more primitive conditions, 
On the morning of the 18th I collected numbers 1083~1087 
at Lumpkin and Union in Stewart County during the stops of our 
train. That afternoon we stopped at Omaha, the last station on 
the Georgia side of the river, and walked down the river a few 
miles (nos. 1088-1094). The most interesting plants were found 
immediately on the banks of the river, which are here about sixty 
feet high and very steep, and are covered with a dense growth of 
