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bama, even among the cultivated plants, but in Small’s Flora 
of the Southeastern United States V. minor is listed as a natural- 
ized plant from Ontario to Georgia. V. major should perhaps be 
entitled to equal recognition, for its grows on the lowest lime- 
stone bluff at Aspalaga, Florida, more remote from the site of 
the last occupied house than the Lagerstroemia above mentioned, 
and it may have been there for many years. A still more remark- 
able colony of it in the coastal plain of Georgia will now be de- 
scribed. 
In the southern edge of Lee County, Georgia, about five 
miles northwest of Albany, in a region that I formerly included 
in the lime-sink region but have called in recent geographical 
literature the red lime lands, there was founded about one hun- 
dred years ago a settlement called Palmyra. A railroad station 
about a mile away still bears the name. It flourished for a few 
years, and then was gradually abandoned in favor of Albany, 
which had the advantage of being on a navigable river (and 
has now become Georgia’s tenth city in population). The coun- 
try around Palmyra is comparatively level, with few streams, 
and the soil is mainly reddish coarse sandy loam, with limestone 
not far below the surface.’ 
At or near Palmyra, in a small grove mostly of native oaks, 
with a road on one side and fields on the other sides, there are 
the remains of a cemetery, with about a dozen tombstones, dat- 
ing from 1838 to 1855. There are also many unmarked graves, 
Presumably belonging to the same period. Although no special 
Inquiry was made, itisa reasonable assumption that the ceme- 
tery has been entirely neglected since the Civil War; there seem 
to be no white people living near it now. The oak grove is ap- 
Proximately an acre in extent, and the cemetery covers some- 
thing like half of it. It is pretty well protected from accidental 
fires by the road and fields around it, and it is not likely that 
fire would often be set purposely in such a place. Unlike most 
of the long-leaf pine country nearer the coast, grazing animals 
àre not allowed to run at large in this region, as shown by the 
unfenced fields. 
Even if a fire should get into the grove occasionally, it would 
Probably stop when it reached a dense tangle of Vinca major 
* Most of the soil in the neighborhood is designated on the government soil 
a. of Lee County, by J. W. Moon (apparently published in December, 
as Greenville clay loam” and “Greenville sandy loam.” 
