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which it was planted has fallen down or been burned, and it has 
been treated as naturalized by Small and by Mohr.” Although 
it produces plenty of seeds, they do not seem to germinate spon- 
taneously, and the tree is propagated chiefly by suckers. It does 
not seem to stand being crowded by forest trees very well. It 
is probably sensitive to fire, too, on account of its thin bark. 
There is some of it at Aspalaga on the Apalachicola River in 
Gadsden County, Florida, which was a flourishing village a cen- 
tury ago (when Croom discovered Tumion and Croomia there), 
but for the last decade or two has been entirely deserted. The 
crepe myrtles there grow in places that are still rather open, and 
they may have been planted by some of the last inhabitants. 
Lonicera Japonica, the Japanese honeysuckle, an evergreen 
vine, formerly cultivated for ornament, has become a pest in 
the South, and is found running wild as far north as New York. 
Its favorite habitat is roadsides and railroad cuts, in and near 
cities and towns, but it is also invading forests, especially those 
protected from fire by their small area or by dampness, and it 
bids fair to spread still more and persist indefinitely.’ Wherever 
it grows it makes a dense tangle, which not only prevents graz- 
ing but must also suppress the seedlings of most trees, tending 
ultimately to destroy the forest. 
Vinca major and V. minor, trailing evergreen herbaceous 
vines, or undershrubs, natives of Europe, both called periwinkle 
in the books, are often found growing in shady places in ceme- 
teries and around old houses in the eastern United States, the 
ever seeing any on either species. Like the sweet potato, which 
they resemble in habit, they are propagated by cuttings. 
Neither species is mentioned in Mohr’s Plant Life of Ala- 
See also Geol. Surv. Ala., Monog. 9, p. 275. 1928. 
sce E. F. Andrews, Science II. 47: 142-143, February 8, 1918; Torreya 
19: 37-43, 1919. Harper, Geol. Sury. Ala. Monog. 9: 321, 1928; Natural Re- 
Pr of Georgia, p. 85, February, 1930; Proc. Ga. Hort. Soc. 53: 47, June, 
