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I had to wait from 3:30 to 5:15 p. m. for another train, and during 

 the short time at my disposal I went out into the pine-barrens to 

 examine the flora, which I found quite different from any to which 

 I had been accustomed. Here I collected twelve species, num- 

 bered 658 to 669, two of which are described below as new. 



It became dark soon after I left Tifton, so that I did not have 

 much further opportunity to observe the flora that day. I no- 

 ticed however that Sercnoa semdata began to appear a few miles 

 east of Tifton, and the pines seemed to be all P. heterophylla. I 



am not sure that I saw P. palustris any more during the remainder 

 of my trip. 



In Waycross the next morning I took a short walk into the 

 outskirts of the city before boarding the train for Douglas, and 

 found myself in an almost perfectly level region, in which the under- 

 lying formation is probably Miocene. What I saw of the flora 

 there did not differ much from that at Tifton, the superficial for- 

 mations being no doubt the same. I collected only one species 

 in Waycross, no. 670. 



From Waycross to Douglas, a distance of 42 miles, the 



country is very sparsely settled, and the pine forests are almost 

 unbroken. To my surprise I noticed that nearly every tree bears 

 the marks of the turpentine industry, but otherwise the country is 

 practically in a state of nature. For a distance of 35 miles out 

 from Waycross the topography continues level, and then changes 

 rather abruptly to a rolling country similar to that around Tifton. 



This part of Georgia is a most excellent region for studying 

 the distribution of plants, for the destructive influences of civiliza- 

 tion have scarcely begun to make themselves felt here, and most 

 of the species are fairly common throughout their respective areas, 

 so that their ranges can be determined with some degree of ac- 

 curacy. In the case of the more conspicuous plants one can ob- 

 serve many of them to good advantage while traveling by rail, as 

 I found from experience. 



Coffee county seems never to have been visited by a botanist 

 before, and I made some interesting discoveries during my short 

 stay there. The topography and flora around Douglas are so 

 similar to those in the vicinity of Tifton that the geological for- 

 mations are probably very nearly the same, namely, Upper Eo- 



