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_ 6. Descriptions of the vegetation of restricted areas, with plants 
classified according to habitat in a scientific manner, like Kearney’s 
reports on Ocracoke Island and Dismal Swamp in the fifth volume 
of the Contributions from the U. S. National Herbarium, and 
Coker’s paper on the Isle of Palms, S, C.* 
7. A number of primarily geological, geographical, descriptive, 
agricultural, ethnological and even ornithological works, in which 
plants are mentioned only incidentally and mostly by their com- 
mon names, if at all, furnish valuable information to one familiar 
with the principles of plant distribution in the coastal plain, and 
should not be overlooked. Among the best of these are some of 
the early reports of the North Carolina Geological Survey by 
Emmons and Kerr, the reports on cotton production + by Kerr and 
Hammond in the 6th volume of the Tenth Census reports (1884), 
the soil surveys published by the U. S. Department of Agriculture 
during the present century t, the supplements to Redway & Hin- 
man’s geographies, on North Carolina by Cobb and on South 
Carolina by Glenn; and Water Supply and Irrigation paper no. 
114 of the U. S. Geological Survey, which contains up-to-date 
though brief summaries of the present knowledge of the strat- 
igraphy of the three states in question (by Darton, Fuller, and 
Glenn), as well as of all the other eastern -states. (References to 
many other primarily geological works for each state, which are 
worth consulting, may be found in Bulletins 127, 188, 189, and 
301 of the U. S. Geological Survey, which are bibliographies of 
North American geological literature from 1731 to 1905.) 
But even yet, as may be inferred from the foregoing, the vege- 
*Torreya 5: 135-145. f. 7-4. 1905. 
+ Under Hes Blin alge 2 6s Rect cor some of the best geographical descrip- 
tions of the southeastern states ever published, including among other things valuable 
notes on the native vegetation. ‘The essential geographical features of all these cotton 
Production reports, including the maps, are condensed into a little known pampblet by 
Dr. Eugene A. Smith, reprinted from the 4th report of the U. S, Entomological Com- 
Mission, Pp. 59-80 and 2 maps. 1884. : 
t The soil survey reports hitherto published for the region in question are those of 
the Norfolk area, Virginia; Raleigh to Newbern, the Craven area, and Perquimans, 
P asquotank, Duplin, and New Hanover counties, North Carolina ; and the Darlington, 
Orangeburg, and Charleston areas, South Carolina. Others for each state are said to 
be in Preparation. These reports, which contain excellent maps and other interesting 
matter, would be a little more satisfactory if their authors had taken advantage of some 
fasily accessible earlier descriptions of the same regions. 
