No. 17] FLOWERING PLANTS AND FERNS 51 
Drosera rotundifolia Houstonia rotundifolia 
Agave Virginica Asclepias amplexicaulis 
Lupinus villosus Silphium scaberrimum 
Trees and shrubs on stream bettoms and bordering swamps 
are the following: 
Pinus taeda Quercus phellos 
Pinus glabra Quercus laurifolia 
Chamnaeeyparis thyoides Quercus aquaticus 
Nyssa sylvatica Quereus Virginiana 
Nyssa aquatica Quercus Michauxii 
Liquidamber styracifiua Magnolia grandiflora 
Acer dasyearpum Magnolia glauca 
Symplocos tinctoria Magnoha macrophylla 
Azalea nudiflora Chionanthus Virginica 
Azalea viscosa Leucothoe axillaris 
Cyrilla racemificra 
Smilax laurifolia 
Stewartia Virginica 
Fraxinus Caroliniana 
Taxodium distichum. 
Iicium Floridanum 
Gelsemium sempervirens 
Halesia diptera ‘ 
Ilex vomitoria 
The herbaceous forms are sufficiently like those of the 
Coastal Pine Meadows, the next region to be discussed, that 
consideration of them will be deferred. 
Coastal Pine Meadows.—This is a low-lying region of slight 
relief. It borders the Gulf like a penumbra five to fifteen miles 
in width, but occasionally, especially around bay heads, widen- 
ing to twenty-five or thirty miles. It is nowhere more than 
twenty to thirty feet above sea level. Ground water lies near 
the surface over the whole area, coming to the surface in occa- 
sional depressions, forming marshes and swamps which tend to 
follow lines roughly parallel with the coast. Near the coast 
an occasional sand ridge from ten to twenty feet higher than 
surrounding parts marks the position of former beach dunes, 
now fixed and clothed with vegetation, which varies from car- 
pet grass and sand peas to tall pine forests. 
The soil is sandy and grayish in the higher parts, and in 
the intervening low wet meadows, where water usually stands, 
