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Lindgrenii was found, while P. mouophylla occurs more to the 

 southward, yet the conditions during Pliocene times may have 

 been very different, and it is perhaps reasonable to conjecture 

 that this fossil species was the ancestor of P. monopJiylla. 



SOME POPULAR PLANT-NAMES USED IN 

 GEORGIA 



By Roland M. Harper 



The following plant-names are a few of those which I have 

 picked up in Georgia during ten years of residence and two sum- 

 mers of travel in the State. Every one is in common use in some 

 part of the State, though many of them have apparently never 

 come to the notice of botanists. They are used by people who 

 have no knowledge of botanical literature, and have never been 

 influenced thereby as have so many of the inhabitants of the 

 northeastern states. 



As the customs and dialects of the people vary to a consider- 

 able extent in different parts of Georgia, I have thought best to 

 give in connection with each common name the names of one or 

 more counties in which it is in use, so that it may be connected 

 with some definite locality. 



It is not claimed that all the following common names are new 

 to science, but most of them have never been reported from 

 Georgia before. 



A few words of explanation are given for those names which 

 seem to need it. 



Panicum digitarioides Carpenter. Maiden cane. Decatur. 

 Sporobolns Indicus (L.) R. Br. Swamp-grass. Mitchell. 



This is a rather misleading name. 

 Campidosus aromaticus (Walt.) Trin. Wild ginger. Sumter. 

 Smilax laurifolia L. Bamboo-vine. Sumter. 

 Smilax Walteri Pursh. Sarsaparilla. Sumter, Coffee. 

 Myrica cerifera L. Sweet oak. Sumter. 

 Querciis digitata (Marsh.) Sudw. Red oak. Sumter, Bulloch. 



Probably confounded with Q. rubra, which is unknown in 

 these counties. 



