140 



Soils 8-1 1 

 Vegetation 11-38 

 Sand-hills 11-16 

 Upland forests 16-19 

 Flatwoods 19-25 



Flatwoods bays 22-25 

 Savannas 25-26 

 Bays and swamps 27-30 

 Deeper swamps 30-32 

 Lakes and ponds (artificial) 32-38 

 Trees 39-61 



Native 39-56 

 Cultivated 56-61 

 Systematic list of plants 62-113 



Statistical summary 113 

 Index 1 1 5-1 29 

 The numbers in this synopsis refer to the pages of the complete 

 edition. The first 38 pages correspond with the part printed in 

 the Elisha Mitchell Journal, but the wording is not identical in 

 both editions, the author having made a few corrections in the 

 months intervening between the two printings. 



Hartsville is in Darlington County, in the upper part of the 

 coastal plain, about 80 miles from the coast and 15 or 20 from 

 the fall-line. According to Dr. Coker it is just at the coast- 

 ward edge of the fall-line sand-hill belt. The soils in that 

 neighborhood are mostly sandy, with little mineral plant food, 

 and rocks, especially limestone, are conspicuous by their absence. 

 The streams are not muddy, and the location of a paper-mill 

 there (mentioned several times in the text) is probably correlated 

 with the comparative freedom of the water from mineral sub- 

 stances in suspension or solution. 



The mean temperature (deduced mainly from the records of 

 two stations in the same county) is about 61.5° F., and the 

 average annual rainfall about 48 inches. About 36.6 per cent, 

 of the total precipitation occurs in the three warmest months, 

 June to August, and 44.7 per cent, in the four warmest months, 

 June to September. (This preponderance of summer rainfall — - 



