288 HarPER: BOTANICAL EXPLORATIONS IN GEORGIA 
to correspond with certain geological formations, here run in a 
general northeasterly and southwesterly direction. 
On the train I met a former acquaintance, whose home was 
in Baker County, and after I had explained to him the object of my 
travels he mentioned that the cane (doubtless Arundinaria gigantea) 
had flowered in the vicinity of his home that spring, an occur- 
rence which had never before been known to the oldest inhabi- 
tants. This corresponds with the observations of Dr. Mohr in 
Alabama, published on the preceding day.* 
Adams is evidently in the same pine-barren zone as Leslie, but 
around Adams the Lafayette formation is mostly overlaid by the 
Columbia, which makes some difference in the flora. We re- 
mained in the vicinity until the 3d, during that time crossing 
Kinchafoonee Creek on the west and Muckalee on the east (nos. 
1147-1162). On the east side of Muckalee Creek, some eight 
or ten miles southeast of Adams, are some interesting lime- 
sinks, a few of which were visited on the afternoon of the 2d. 
On the return trip to Leslie the next day, which was made partly 
on foot, I collected Plantago sparsiflora (no. 1163) near Smithville 
in Lee County and an apparently undescribed species of Mesadenia 
(no. 1164) a few miles south of Leslie in Sumter County. 
The following week we started on a more extensive trip to the 
extreme southwestern part of the state, by way of Americus and 
Albany. Our first stop on this trip was at Camilla, in Mitchell 
County, on the 7th and 8th (nos. 1165-1170). The most interest- 
ing natural feature in the vicinity of Camilla is the “ Slough,” which 
is shown on most maps of Georgia, though I have never yet seen 
it mentioned otherwise. It is represented on the maps as a body of 
water about twenty miles long and one or two miles wide, approxi- 
mately parallel to the Flint River in Mitchell and Decatur coun- 
ties. But it is not a body of water at all, nor even a swamp. 
That portion of it which we explored, a mile or two west of Ca- 
milla, is simply a broad shallow depression about a mile wide and 
perhaps ten feet lower than the surrounding country. At the time 
of our visit there was considerable water in it as a result of recent 
rains (August being one of the wettest months in that part of the 
country), but it is said to be ordinarily quite dry for its whole 
*Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 6: 103, 389. 
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