THE ALTAMAHA GRIT REGION 243 



face everywhere except in the sand-hills. Only one natural 

 outcrop of the characteristic pine-bark-colored rock 4 of the region 

 was seen, that on a hillside about two miles south of Vidalia, in 

 Toombs County. 5 Some of the same is exposed in cuts near 

 Hazlehurst. 



All along this route the pine timber, where not already destroyed 

 by farmers, has been severely culled by lumber and turpentine 

 men, and only two patches of "round timber" (i.e., that which 

 has not been turpentined) were noticed; one in Berrien County 

 near Bannockburn, and one in Toombs County near Vidalia. 

 Except in the flat country between Douglas and Hazlehurst I 

 was hardly ever more than a mile from a cultivated field; but 

 the ravages of civilization have not yet been great enough to 

 prevent one's seeing more native species of plants in nearly every 

 mile of the journey than can be recorded in the two or three 

 minutes it takes to travel that mile. 



The native vegetation is of course on the whole decidedly of 

 the pine-barren type. The principal habitats observed from 

 the train were dry, intermediate and moist pine-barrens, branch, 

 creek and river swamps, cypress ponds, sand-bills and hammocks. 

 The only muddy river-swamps were those of the Altamaha; 

 and hammocks were chiefly confined to the left sides of Seventeen- 

 Mile, Tiger and Pendleton's Creeks, where they are protected 

 from fire by the sand-hill on one side and the swamp on the other. 6 

 The plants identified on this trip may all be classed as pioneers 

 except those of river-swamps and hammocks. 



In the whole distance of 150 miles 78 species of plants were 

 noted, but only about half of these were seen more than once. 

 Those seen three or more times are listed in table A, which is 

 divided into four parts, viz., (1) trees, (2) large shrubs or small 

 trees, (3) shrubs, palms and woody vines, and (4) herbs. In 

 this table all the various habitats are combined. The number 



4 See Bull. Torr. Bot. Club 32: 144. 1905; Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci. 17: 22-23. 

 1906. 



5 The existence of a flag station named Petros, about six miles south of Vidalia, 

 may possibly indicate an exposure of Altamaha Grit near there also. 



6 See Bull. Torr. Bot. Club 38: 524-525. 1911. 



