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quent in some places and pocosins (almost the other extreme) in 
others; but for the present I can do no better than treat it asa 
unit. Three or four estuaries were crossed in this distance, but 
most of the plants characteristic of their marshes were not seen 
often enough to be included in the following list. 
A considerable part of this region is described in the U. S. soil 
survey of the ‘Craven area,’”’ by Smith and Coffey, published in 
January, 1905. Important botanical papers on the same region 
have been published by Croom* and by McCarthy.t The rail- 
road between New Bern and Washington, a distance of about 35 
miles, had been in operation only a year or two, so that I found 
the vegetation along there more nearly ina natural condition than 
in most other parts of this journey. 
The plant list for these 122 miles is as follows: 
TREES 
104 Pinus Tae I2 Quercus marylandica 
4% ponee Styracifiua 10 Taxodium distichum 
57 Nyssa biflora 9 Quercus alba 
35 Cornus florida 8 Salix nigra 
27 Pinus serotina 7 Fagus grandifolia 
26 Magnolia glauca 7 Gordonia Lasianthus 
25 Oxydendron arboreum 5 Ilex opac 
24 Pinus palustris 4 Quercus pao 
19 Acer rubrum 3 Nyssa uniflora 
18 tessieasan Tulipifera 3 Taxodium imbricarium 
15 Quercus falcata 3 Quercus stellata 
SHRUBS 
23 Myrica cerifera 11 Clethra alnifolia 
21 Cyrilla racemiflora 6 P dendron flavescens 
13 Ilex glabra 5 puree spino. 
2 Alnus rugosa 3 Pieris nitida 
12 Smilax laurifolia 3 Decodon verticillatus 
12 Arundinaria tecta 
HERBS 
23 Eupatorium rotundifolinm 5 Rhexia Alifanus 
18 Sarracenia flava 5 Osmunda cinnamomea 
0 Habenaria blephariglottis 5 Polygala ramosa 
9 Tillandsia usneoides 4 Xyris sp. 
84: 72. 1892) was its use by a man who had seen hammocks in the states farther 
south, so that it may not have been really indigenous to that locality (the ‘ ‘natural 
well” of Duplin County). 
*A catalogue of plants . . . in the vicinity of New Bern, . . . 1837. 
ot. Gaz. 10: 384,385. 1885; 12: 76-78. 1887. 
