410 HARPER: VEGETATION OF THE COASTAL PLAIN 
In 1906 I passed through this region for a distance of 35 miles, 
between Allendale and Yemassee, and in 1909 I traversed it from 
about Garnett to Sycamore, a distance of some 28 miles; the two 
routes crossing at Fairfax, near its upper edge. In the following 
table the notes of the two trips are combined, but the figures are 
kept distinct, those for 1906 being given first in each case. As 
the dates were almost exactly the same in the two years there is 
no appreciable seasonal difference to be allowed for. The 1906 
figures average somewhat smaller in this and the two other tables 
similarly constructed, probably because I did not watch the mile- 
posts as closely then as I did in 1909. 
TREES 
5+15 Pinus Elliottii 3+3 Pinus Taeda 
8+10 Taxodium imbricarium 5+0 Magnolia glauca 
9+4 Pinus serotina 1+2 Liguidambar oe 
4+8 Nyssa biflora I+2 Quercus marylandic 
7+1 Pinus palustris 2+1 Acer rubrum 
2+4 Liriodendron Tulipifera 
SHRUBS 
8+6 Clethra alnifolia 0+2 (Prunus angustifolia) 
HERBS. 
1+12 Eriocaulon decangulare o0+3 Pluchea bifrons 
1+10 Exupatorium rotundifolium 1+2 Pontederia cordata 
3+8 Oxypolis phere) I+2 Lespedeza capitata sericea 
4+6 Polygala cy 0+2 Ludwigia pilosa 
2+4 Zygadenus eas o+2 Rhexia Alifanus 
3+2 Tillandsia usneoides o+2 Sabbatia decandra 
5+0 Sarracenia flava 1+ 1 Osmunda cinnamomea 
2+2 Anchistea virginica 1+1 Polygala ramosa 
o+4 Scirpus Eriophorum 
If I could have made this trip fifteen or twenty years earlier, 
when the railroad (then known as the South Bound R. R.) was 
new, Pinus palustris would doubtless have headed my list. Its 
present inferior rank here is due partly to lumbering operations, 
and partly to the fact that it occupied the driest soils, which were 
best suited to cultivation, while the trees that stand ahead of 
it in the above list all prefer wet places and have thus escaped de- 
struction to a much greater extent. 
Pinus Elhiottii, Pluchea bifrons, Ludwigia pilosa, and Sabbatia 
decandra, all of which are typical, pine-barren pond plants, were 
not seen again after leaving Barnwell County, ponds being very 
