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Steele, within four miles of this city ; B. disscctiiin Spreng. is fre- 

 quent in rich woodlands ; B. obUquuni Muhl., occurring in low 

 damp woods, is not so common. 



I am indebted to Messrs. R. V. Raile\' and H. Hungerford for 

 the photograph of B. virginiaiiniii. 



W.^SIIINGTON, D. C, 



May 29. 1905. 



SOME LARGE SPECIMENS OF SMALL TREES 

 IN GEORGIA 



By Roland M. Harpkr 



Two winters ago while collecting timber specimens in Georgia 

 I came across some unusually large examples of four species 

 which are ordinarily shrubs. The following notes on them may 



be of interest. 



Rhus coi'allina L. 



About two years ago * I reported the occurrence of arbor- 

 escent specimens of this on the banks of the Chattahoochee 

 River in Early County near Saffold, at or near the inland edge of 

 the Lower Oligocene region of the coastal plain. In February, 

 1904, I revisited the spot and found more of them (the fact that 

 there are almost no evergreens on alluvial banks in that part of 

 the country making it easier to see the trees in winter). The 

 trunk of the largest specimen observed was eleven inches in 

 diameter near the base, but as it forked about three feet from the 

 ground (see Fig. i) I had to select a smaller one for the col- 

 lection. The largest specimens averaged about thirty feet tall.f 



On March 26 I saw along the bluff of McRean Creek in the 

 southeastern corner of Richmond County a specimen of R. 

 copnl/ina which I estimated to be forty feet tall. Its trunk was 

 only si.\ inches in diameter. 



* Hull. 'Jorrey Club 30 : 291. 1903. 



f I looked in vain for the large specimens of /^/v/Z/rt spiitosa which I had seen near 

 the same place in 1901, and was afterward informed that the demand for the bark 

 ("prickly-ash bark") as an ingredient of some patent medicine had caused their 

 destruction between my two visits. 



