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confined to the coastal plain, climbs over bushes in the same 

 swamps, and as its leaves had already fallen ts bright red berries 

 made it very conspicuous. Cyrilla racemiflora, which has a 

 somewhat similar range, also accompanied it. 



In Scotland County, about midway between Maxton and Lau- 

 rinburg, the railroad passes through a broad shallow depression 

 several acres in extent, which doubtless becomes a pond in wet 

 weather. Paniciun digitarioides occurs on every square foot — and 

 in fact almost every square inch — of this depression, and Finns 

 Taeda in the shallower parts around the edges. These two 

 species give the place an aspect very like that of some similar 

 depressions about the same distance from the fall-line in Twiggs 

 County, Georgia, but the geographical relations between them 

 have, of course, not yet been worked out. The flora of this pond 

 — or savanna, as it might be termed — has a good deal in common 

 with that of the shallower ponds in the Lower Oligocene region 

 of Georgia. In it I found among other things Manisuris riigosa 

 (but the Manisuris in similar habitats in Georgia is M. CJiapmani), 

 Scleria gracilis, RJiexia aristosa and Brezveria aqiiatica. With- 

 out having access at present to literature in which details of plant 

 distribution in North Carolina are given, I should imagine that 

 some of these might not have been seen in that vicinity before. 

 For instance, the RJicxia, I believe, was not previously known 

 between Delaware and South Carolina.* 



A little nearer Laurinburg I found a few specimens of Erio- 

 phorum virginicum in a small bog, and I am pretty sure I saw 

 the same thing early in the morning in some sand-hill bogs 

 northeast of Hamlet. It is much rarer in the South than in the 

 North. t Kuhnistera pinnata was noticed during the day in sev- 

 eral dry sandy places, even a little north of Hamlet. It is 

 strictly confined to the coastal plain, as far as known, and prob- 

 ably does not range much farther north than this. 



Judging from what I saw on this November day, an examina- 

 tion of the same territory in summer would prove very interest- 

 ing, and it is to be hoped that this and other parts of the south- 



* See Bull. Torrey Club 28 : 476. 1901. 

 f See Rhodora 7 : 72. 1905. 



