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positae are also represented by only one species each. There are 
five oaks (the same number as in the surrounding sand-hill area) 
three representatives of the Ericales, and three colorless sapro- 
phytes or root-parasites, namely, Monotropa, Conopholis and 
Although there are no quantitative figures to show it, just 
about half of this vegetation is evergreen. It is very similar to 
Fic, 2 Fic. 3 
Fic. 2, Scene on sandy road just outside of the pocosin. Flowering branches of 
Quercus stellata in upper left corner; Quercus Catesbaei at right, bearing many dead 
leaves of the preceding seaso 
Fic. 3. Trunk of the ccna Quercus (34 inches in circumference, breast- 
high, and about 30 feet tall) in the pocosin near its eastern edge. 
that of some of the sandy hammocks of Georgia and Florida;* 
and it may be more or less of an accident that the name pocosin 
was applied to this place by the early settlers instead of hammock.} iv 
* See Ann, N. y. Acad: Sci. 1: of 102. 1906; Bull. Torrey Club 38: 515-517. 
Igrr, 
T If the early immigrants had come from the southeastward instead of north- 
fastward they would doubtless have been familiar with hammocks, which are more 
Prevalent nearer the coast. 
