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6 Myrica cerifera 3 Hypericum aspalathoides ? 
4 Smilax laurifolia 2 Ilex glabra 
HERBS. 
18 Eupatorium rotundifolium 2 Campulosus aromaticus 
7 Tillandsia usneoides 2 Rhexia Alifanus 
6 Eriocaulon decangulare 2 Scirpus Eriophorum 
3 Pluchea imbricata 2 Hibiscus aculeatus, 
3 Osmunda cinnamomea 
(The flat pine-barrens of the southeastern part of the Altamaha 
Grit region, between Valdosta and Walthourville, Georgia, which 
I had studied in the same way a few days before, seem to have 
Pinus Elliottii, Taxodium imbricarium, Ilex glabra, and Rhexia 
Alifanus relatively more abundant, and Pinus serotina, Eupatorium 
rotundifolium, Liquidambar, Pinus Taeda, Tillandsia, and Os- 
munda cinnamomea perceptibly less so.) 
Of the plants listed above, Serenoa and Cliftonia were not seen 
any more after leaving Georgia, this being just about the northern 
limit of both. 
After crossing the Savannah River the railroad goes for about 
five miles through bottom-lands, in which Liguidambar and Pinus 
Taeda are the commonest trees and Tillandsia usneoides almost 
the only herb recognizable from the train. (It is hardly worth while 
to make a formal list of the plants seen in the ten or fifteen minutes 
it took to pass through these bottoms.) 
The “rolling wire-grass country” of the Altamaha Grit region, 
which separates the lime-sink region from the flat pine-barrens 
all the way across Georgia, seems to terminate at or near the 
Savannah River, and the country just east of there in South Caro- 
lina appears to combine to a considerable extent the characters 
of those two regions which are so widely separated in Georgia and 
Florida. This part of South Carolina is a part of Hammond’s 
“lower pine belt.’’* Its peculiarities are not easily pointed out, but 
it may be briefly described as a region of flat or nearly flat grassy 
pine-barrens with very little underbrush, and many shallow ponds. 
Its soil is probably a little more fertile than that of some other 
pine-barren regions, for there are more cultivated fields along this 
part of the route than I saw in the same distance south of the 
Savannah River. 
*South Carolina” 44-56. 1883; Tenth Census U. S. 6: 478-481. 1884. 
