OF GEORGIA DURING THE SEASON OF 1902 13 
sand. hills except the late Dr. Hugh M. Neisler, who lived for many 
years in Butler, the county-seat of Taylor County, and sent speci- 
mens from there (many of which are now preserved in the Torrey 
Herbarium) to Dr. Torrey. At Reynolds, in the same county, I 
met a grandson of Dr. Neisler, who took me to another historic 
spot, the site of the Indian Agency at the crossing of the Federal 
Road and Flint River, where Dr. Baldwin spent several weeks in 
the spring of 1812.* The two species which Dr. Baldwin dis- 
covered here I was unable to find. But on the river bank just 
above the Agency (and at or near the fall-line) I saw growing in 
intimate association Hydrangea quercifolia and Hypericum aureum, 
both of which were discovered within a few miles of this place by 
Bartram in July, 1776, the former east of the river and the latter 
west. Both were also noted near the Agency by Dr. Baldwin. 
In June I explored portions of the sand-hills of the Oconee 
and Ocmulgee Rivers, opposite Dublin and Hawkinsville respec- 
tively. These river sand-hills are probably of a different origin 
from the fall-line sand-hills, but their flora is similar in composition 
and almost identical in aspect. Analogous sand-hills occur along 
the left sides of many other streams in Southeast Georgia, but are 
rare in Southwest Georgia and seem to be unknown in Alabama. 
In August I spent two days (6th to 8th) in Okefinokee Swamp 
(which is mostly in Charlton County), in company with Mr. P. L. 
Ricker, of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Okefinokee Swamp 
differs materially from the two other great swamps of the eastern 
United States (Dismal Swamp and the Everglades) in being about 
50 miles inland and over 100 feet above sea-level, but it has sev- 
eral features in common with each. No account of the flora of 
Okefinokee has ever been published, but space will not permit a 
detailed description here. The swamp, although exceedingly in- 
teresting phytogeographically, seemed to contain no endemic spe- 
cies of flowering plants. About 75 species were observed, but 
this may not be over half the total number in the swamp. 
Later in the same month we visited two islands on the neigh- 
boring coast, both now favorite summer resorts: St. Simon’s, in 
Glynn County, and Cumberland, in Camden. These islands were 
* See Reliq. Baldw. 58-62 ef seg. 
