Harper : Observations on Taxodium 



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This turns out to be the predominating tree in Okefinokee 

 Swamp, as already announced,"^ where it grows in all the sphag- 

 nous bogs, with Pjnus Elliotlii, ferns, Dulicliiuni, EriopJiornni rir- 

 ginicinn^ aroids, orchids, Droscra^ Sarraccnia, Ilex, encaceous 

 shrubs, etc., just as several other conifers do in the cedar-swamps 

 and peat-bogs of the North. It \s said to attain enormous dimen- 



Fjgure 6. View of Cane Water Pond, Decatur County, showing a group of sap- 

 lings of TaxodiuJH imbricarium in center, and branches of two older trees at the sides. 

 Aug. 6, 1903. Note the gradually tapering trunks of the saplings (doubtless due to 

 great variations in water-level), and the erect leaf-bearing branchlets on all the trees. 



sions there, but I did not penetrate far enough into the heavily 

 timbered portions of the swamp to verify this. Elsewhere in 

 Georgia it is nearly always associated with Pinus Elliottii, and 

 commonlv with Pinus serotina, Dichromcna lati/o/ia, Ilex viyiti- 



folia, Mag 



glaiica, Hypericum fasciculaUnn, Nyssa bijli 



^ypolis filifornds and Pinckncya ptibcns. 

 The natives in Georgia do not seem usually to make any dis- 



* See Torreya 2 : 157. Oct. 1902; and Science II. \^ : 508. 27 March, I903. 



