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of the sand-hill bogs of the Altamaha Grit region,* the low islands 
in Okefinokee Swamp, and some densely bushy places in the flat 
pine-barrens near the coast. 
In the pine-barrens of Brunswick and Pender Counties, North 
Carolina, one occasionally passes extensive flat meadow-like areas, 
or savannas, with no shrubs and very few trees, recalling the 
“pine meadows’? of southeastern Mississippi.t One such place 
near Burgaw { contained no trees or even stumps in an area of 
several hundred acres, being a veritable prairie, and at the same 
time apparently perfectly natural. The vegetation of such places 
is composed chiefly of grasses (especially Campulosus aromaticus) 
and other monocotyledons, as might be expected. 
Floristics. — The total number of species noted in the three 
states in five days was about 200, all seen and identified from the 
car windows except a few near Florence, S. C., on the morning of 
July 27, and about thirty in the vicinity of Wrightsville Beach, N. 
C., on the afternoon of the same day, which had not been observed 
from the railroads. Counting both native and introduced species, 
the monocotyledons constitute 25.7 per cent. of the angiosperms 
in my notes for this trip ; while of the native angiosperms alone, 
the monocotyledons are 26.2 per cent. Although these figures 
area little less than those I have obtained for several other coastal 
plain areas,§ the discrepancy is easily explainable by the fact that 
all the trees and nearly all the shrubs are dicotyledons, and my 
car-window notes are of course more complete for these than for 
the herbs. Considering the comparatively small number of spe- 
cies recorded, the correspondence seems remarkably close. 
About 45 species noted in South Carolina were not seen after 
leaving that state, and some 15 others were evidently more fre- 
quent in South than in North Carolina. These 60 species, or the 
Majority of them, can be divided into several groups according to 
habitat and origin, as follows : 
First, plants of alluvial swamps along the larger rivers, a habi- 
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* See Ann. N, Y. Acad. Sci, 17: pl. 72. f. 2. 1906. 
+See Torreya 6: 204-205. 1906; also McGee, Ann. Rep. U. S. Geol. Surv, 
Tal: 368, 475. 1892 
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t Described in Kerr’s report for 1875 (pages 19, 178) as the ‘* Burgaw Savanna 
@ See Torreya 5: 207-210. 
