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In Ji'.ly, 1906, while spending a few days in South Georgia, I 

 made it a point to visit some of these outcrops of Altamaha 

 Grit which I had heard of in previous years but had never 

 seen ; and I was fortunate in adding the names of some species 

 to each of the three classes mentioned above, besides discover- 

 ing new stations for several plants already known from such 

 habitats. 



Figure 1. Falls on Rocky Creek, Coffee County, viewed from below. July 18, 

 1906. (This place is popularly known throughout the county as " The Rocks" or 

 *' Falling Water." ) The rocky slope in the left foreground is practically bare of vege- 

 tation, but on the level surface a few yards farther to the left are most of the rock- 

 loving plants mentioned herein. The trees in the background are mostly Pinus 

 palustris. 



In the northern part of Coffee County, about nine miles north- 

 east of Broxton, the nearest town of any size, a small creek, 

 known appropriately as Rocky Creek, breaks through a hori- 

 zontal stratum of Altamaha Grit, tumbles eight or ten feet into a 

 pool, then flows away through a winding gorge 50 to 75 feet 

 wide with perpendicular or overhanging walls. These walls are 

 intersected in places by straight vertical fissures — some of them 



