ALTAMAHA GRIT REGION OF GEORGIA 59 



Cynoctonum sessilifolium 



7-8 



white 



Juncus scirpoidesl| 





— 



Panicum melicarium 



5-7 



— 



Xyris flexuosa1| 



7-8 



yellow 



Linum Floridanuml| 



6-7 



yellow 



Aster eryngiifoliusl^ 



7 





Habenaria cristatal| 



7-8 



yellow 



blephariglottislf 



8-9 



white 



Lilium Catesbsei % 



8-9 



red 



Iris versicolor % 



4-5 



blue 



Polygala cymosa© 



5-9 



yellow 



Tridens ambiguus 



6-8 



— 



Stokesia lsevis% 







Rhynchospora compressa 



5 



— 



Sarracenia minor X psittacinal^ 







Kcellia hyssopifolial| 







Eryngium yuccifoliuml/. 



6-7 



whit 



Panicum hemitomon1| 



6 



— 



Summary. The woody plants (most of them evergreen) are 

 greatly outnumbered by the herbs, not only in species, but still 

 more in individuals. The trees are all conifers. The shrubs, 

 which are most abundant on the lower slopes, and almost want- 

 ing higher up, are mostly rather small and scattered. It is in- 

 teresting to note that two species which become large trees in 

 some other parts of South Georgia, namely Liquidambar and 

 Magnolia glauca, are only shrubs in moist pine-barrens. The 

 Magnolia fruits abundantly when only knee-high, but I have 

 not yet discovered how the shrubby Liquidambar reproduces 

 itself. 



The herbs are mostly perennials, as in the groups previously 

 discussed. Few of them are evergreen, but many have not 

 been studied enough in winter to determine certainly whether 

 they are evergreen or not. Pieris phillyreifolia is the only woody 

 vine (if it can be called a vine), 1 and Cuscuta indecora is the 

 only herbaceous vine, and at the same time the only parasite. 

 There seem to be no epiphytes or cellular cryptogams. Most of 

 the species have narrow leaves, or other adaptations for redu- 

 cing transpiration, just as in the dry pine-barrens. 2 



1 See Torreya 3: 21-22, Feb. 1903. 



2 For references to anatomical studies of Oxypolis filiformis, Ilex 



