Harper: Explorations in Georgia 1904 4G5 



What seems to be exactly the same plant was seen in a creek 

 swamp in Coffee County in May, and the illustration of it sub- 

 joined (figure 5) may enable some future monographer to deter- 

 mine the species- 



Quercus geminata Small, Bull Torrey Club 24 : 438. 1897 



This has been known hitherto only as a shrub or small tree, 

 ranging from Florida to Mississippi. While collecting timber 

 specimens in the winter I had occasion to study the live-oaks on 

 the sand-hills of the Altamaha Grit region, and found them to be 

 all of this species. In Coffee County {rto, 20^0) it is sometimes 

 thirty feet tall, with a trunk two feet in diameter, which when full 

 grown is never erect, but ascending or curved. 



Its distribution has not been well worked out yet, but it can 

 probably be found in every county in the lower half of the coastal 

 plain of Georgia. Q. virginiana, with which it was formerly con- 

 fused, seems to be confined to the immediate vicinity of the coast 

 and to the lime-sink region (which are just the regions where 

 Tillandsia nsneoides grows most luxuriantly). These two oaks are 

 not as distinct as one might wish, however, and on Tybee Island 

 I have seen specimens which might be referred about equally well 

 to either. 



Clavtonia virginica L. 



In the swamp of the Oconee River near Beech Hill, Wilkinson 

 County (see figure 2), April 13 {jw. 2120), This is the only 

 place where I have seen it in the South. Its habitat is certainly 

 very different there fronj what it is in New York City, where it is 

 almost a weed. 



Sagina decumbens SiMiTHii (Gray) Wats. 

 What seems to be this little-known plant was collected in a 

 hammock (see page 453) on Tybee Island on April 30 {710. 2173), 

 It was past flowering, but was readily distinguishable from S. de- 



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It was 



adjacent Pennsylvania. 



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There are a number of plants on the sea islands of Georgia, 



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