234 HARPER: SPRING ASPECTS OF COASTAL PLAIN VEGETATION 
I have never found it within about 25 miles of the coast in Georgia; 
and like Nyssa uniflora, but doubtless for different reasons, it is 
not known to occur in eastern Florida. 
CERATIOLA ERICOIDES Michx. Observed three times on the 
highest and driest sandhills of Lexington County, South Carolina, 
about halfway between Columbia and Perry, which must be near 
its northern limit. Kuhnistera pinnata and Lupinus diffusus were 
seen with or near it, and nowhere else on that day. 
BAPTISIA PERFOLIATA (L.) R. Br. This most striking (and 
one of the least widely distributed) species of Baptisia was seen 
only once on the day indicated, namely, a little north of Kline, 
in Barnwell County, South Carolina. 
MAGNOLIA GRANDIFLORA L. First noticed in the upper edge 
of Hampton County, South Carolina. This beautiful tree is 
evidently much rarer in South Carolina than in some of the states 
farther west. 
MyRIcA CERIFERA L, Frequent from a point a little north 
Barnwell, S. C., southward. 
TILLANDSIA USNEOIDEs L. First seen in the swamp of the 
South Fork of the Edisto River on the boundary between Orange- 
burg and Barnwell counties, South Carolina, where it is very 
abundant. This characteristic coastal plain epiphyte seems to 
reach the fall-line only along or near the muddy rivers,* and the 
Edisto is not of that class. 
ORONTIUM AQuATICUM L. Seen on this trip only in the estua- 
rine marshes of the Ogeechee River, Georgia. Throughout its 
sembles that of Rumex (section Lapathum) about as much as anything else. It is 
also common near the Altamaha River. Michaux’s first-named locality must be 
very near where Bartram saw the same plant in the preceding decade 
The type locality of this species ( Pielea monophyllu Lam.) was given as ‘‘Caro- 
lina,’”’ but that should not be taken too ra goth Strange to say, it does not seem to 
though); but this is true of several other plants mentioned in Michaux’s journal, 
and probably indicates that their specimens in such cases, if they preserved any, 
got lost. 
N. Am. Sylva 2:93. 1846. 
*In this connection see Nuttall’s remarks on the distribution of this species, 
in his Genera 1: 208, 20 1818. 
ft See Bull. Torrey cue 34: 257. 1007. 
