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last few miles. Quercus Catesbaei was not seen at all between 
Allendale and Savannah, probably because the country is not 
quite high and dry enough for it. It is interesting to note that 
this list contains five of the six pines which are indigenous to the 
coastal plain of the Carolinas and Georgia; and the other one, 
P. glabra, was seen in the same region too, but only once. Pinus 
palustris was doubtless originally far more abundant than any 
other tree in this region. 
A mile or so southwest of Hardeeville the railroad enters the 
bottoms and swamps of the Savannah River, which are here about 
three miles wide on the South Carolina side and perhaps a little 
narrower on the Georgia side. Some notes on the swamp timber 
northwest of Hardeeville (nearer to Purysburg, a place mentioned 
a few times in Elliott’s Botany of South Carolina and Georgia) 
can be found in the paper by Sherrard, above mentioned. 
The following plants were noted more than once in the first 
seven or eight miles after leaving Hardeeville. 
TREES SHRUBS 
6 Acer rubrum 4 Sabal glabra 
5 Pinus Taeda 3 Phoradendron flavescens " 
4 snacineetoe distichum 3 Arundinaria macrosperma 
4 Nyssa 2 Myrica cerifera 
4 > sel ere seebehes ; 
4 Quercus nigra : HERBS 
3 Pinus echinata 8 Tillandsia usneoides 
2 Ulm 7 Zizania aquatica 
2 Mapas. grandiflora 
2 Salix nigra? 
From the river to Savannah and thence southwestward to 
within a mile and a half of Walthourville, a total distance of about 
53 miles, the railroad is mostly in what might be called the coast 
region of Georgia, though farther inland than the salt marshes 
and live oak hammocks, which are characteristic of the region. 
Along the railroad the country is very level, the soil is rather silty, 
or perhaps marly in a few places, and the vegetation is much nearer 
the climax condition than it is in the pine barrens a little farther 
inland. A few estuaries which were crossed bring to view a number 
of marsh plants, only a few of which were seen more than once, 
however. 
