224 HARPER: SPRING ASPECTS OF COASTAL PLAIN VEGETATION 
to see even in winter, I had daylight all the way. It happens also 
that I had been over all the Piedmont portion of this route, between 
Washington and Columbia, by daylight in former years; while 
south of Columbia it was all new to me except three sections 
in Georgia, namely, from the Savannah River to Jesup, 74 miles, 
Hortense to Nahunta, 9 miles, and Folkston to the St. Mary’s 
River, 3 miles. From Columbia to Savannah, however, I was 
nowhere more than 12 miles from the Seaboard Air Line, on which 
I had traveled northward a little more than seven months pre- 
viously.* 
The train I was on made about 45 miles an hour, including 
regular stops (which were few); and at that speed I could not 
identify many herbs, especially so early in the season. However, 
some observations of more than passing interest were made on 
the woody plants, some of which are rapidly becoming scarcer 
along the route to be described, owing to the “ pernicious activity ”’ 
of lumbermen and farmers. 
At daybreak on the fourth of March I was just passing Blythe- 
wood, S. C., which is about 20 miles north of Columbia and at 
the inland edge of the fall-line sandhills, whose summer vegetation 
I described superficially last year.| These sandhills continued 
all the way across Richland and Lexington counties, and to the 
vicinity of Perry in Aiken County, 32 miles south of Columbia. 
In this region the lumbering of long-leaf pine seems to have 
practically ceased, and the turpentine industry (which is based on 
the same tree) nearly so. Agriculture has not quite kept pace 
with the destruction of the pines, and the region is still very 
sparsely settled, except in the immediate vicinity of Columbia and 
other fall-line cities. The highest and barrenest portions of the 
sandhills, on this route at least, seemed to be about 15 miles 
south of the Saluda River, or approximately halfway between 
Columbia and Perry. 
The following plants were observed more than once in passing 
through the sandhill country. t 
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190 thirds of the way from Columbia to Savannah. 
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n this and the subsequent lists evergreens are indicated by bold-faced type, 
which nah aid the reader in picturing to himself how they stand out conspicuously 
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