392 HARPER: BOTANICAL CROSS-SECTION OF MISSISSIPPI 
Hurt, op. cit. 19-24. The latest paper on the area under con- 
sideration is Bulletin 244 of the Office of Experiment Stations, 
United States Dept. Agriculture, a ‘‘Report on the Belzoni* 
drainage district in Washington County, Mississippi,’’ by H. A. 
Kipp, 1912. This comprises 55 pages, a map and several diagrams; 
and from the list of bench marks occupying the last six pages one 
‘can get a crude idea of the trees of the region and their relative 
abundance. 
Running north and south near the middle of the ‘‘delta’”’ is a 
narrow low ridge, described by Smith and Hilgard as the ‘‘dog- 
wood ridge,’’ and said to be above the reach of all floods. Where 
I crossed it, about Itta Bena, this ridge seems to be only a few 
inches high, and it would be hardly noticed by any one not making 
a special search for it. Even the inhabitants of that neighbor- 
hood who were interviewed on the subject seemed never to have 
heard of it. (It is doubtless more noticeable farther north.) I 
walked along or near the ridge from Sheppardtown to Itta Bena, 
eight miles, but the vegetation along there did not seem different 
enough from that of the rest of the region to be listed separately. 
The following plants were seen more than once on June 7th 
to 9th, inclusive, from the train between Malmaison and Green- 
ville, and on side trips on foot from Itta Bena, Elizabeth and 
Stoneville, a distance of about 75 miles in all. 
TREES 2 Morus rubra 
31 Taxodium distichum 2 Carpinus caroliniana 
26 pags erg Styraciflua 2 Ilex opaca 
25s 2 Nyssa sylvatica 
18 Chedicetie triacanthos 2 Hicoria ovata 
17 Populus deltoides 2 Quercus texana? 
12 Ul lata? 
II Quercus pagodaefolia SHRUBS 
. fone Phellos 25 Pode apices cirrhosa 
niflor: 18 Sabal 
é ni sotaas easton 6 Sambucus ‘canadens 
5 Quercus Michauxi: 5 Arundin panies 
4 Platanus cocoate 3 Cashelent ras occidentalis 
4 Que cus ni 3 Tecoma radicans 
4 Fraxinus s = i 2 Rhus radicans 
4 Celt 2 Bignonia crucigera 
4 Acer vabeaie tridens? 2 Berchemia scandens 
3 Planera aquatica 2 Adelia acuminata 
3 Quercus lyrata 
us americana? 
* Also (perhaps more commonly) spelled Belzona. 
ft Some of this may be Ulmus crassifolia, which I was not acquainted with at 
that time. 
