226 HARPER: SPRING ASPECTS OF COASTAL PLAIN VEGETATION 
Pinus Elliottii, near Allendale. The transition from the undulat- 
ing farming region, just described, to the more typical flat damp 
pine barrens dotted with shallow ponds is very gradual, however, 
and the exact boundary cannot be located at present within several 
miles. A brief description of this kind of country, based on obser- 
vations made mostly in the same county (Hampton) in 1906 and 
1909, has already been published.* Although the railroad be- 
tween Allendale and Hardeeville is only about a dozen years old, 
as stated above, the lumbermen have already cut nearly every 
pine tree within sight of it, that was worth taking. Many of the 
logs however were doubtless hauled to other railroads near by, 
or to the Savannah River, before this railroad was built. A pretty 
good description of the southern part of the region now under 
consideration can be found in Bulletin 43 of the U. S. Bureau of 
Forestry, entitled ‘A working plan for forest lands in Hampton 
and Beaufort counties, South Carolina,” by Thomas H. Sherrard, 
published in 1903. 
The following plants were noted in the 51 miles of pine barrens 
traversed in South Carolina. 
TREES SHRUBS 
24 Pinus Taeda 9 Smilax laurifolia 
22 Pinus Elliottii 9 Ilex glabra 
18 Pinus palustris 7 Myrica cerifera 
14 Taxodium imbricarium 6 leon seve flavescens 
10 Nyssa biflora ft Ilex m ia 
ro Acer rubrum 2 Arundinaria tecta 
7 Pi serotina 
7 Pinus echinata 
6 Quercus nigra 16 Tillandsia usneoides 
3 Magnolia glauca 3 Trilisa odoratissima? 
2 Magnolia grandiflora 3 Carex Walteriana? 
2 Erianthus sp. (in ponds) 
The occurrence in this list of several woody plants of climax 
tendencies, such as Pinus Taeda, P. echinata, Quercus nigra, 
Magnolia grandiflora, and Myrica cerifera, is probably to be ex- 
plained by the proximity of the Savannah River bottoms in the 
wis c. 410. 
0 Mr Sthetant’ $ report on this region the black gum is referred, probably 
erroneously, to Nyssa sylvatica. See in this connection Bull. Torrey Club 34: 352. 
1907 ae foeteink te). 
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