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After the local distribution of each species is given its time of 

 flowering, as far as known. In compiling these data I have 

 made use of a long series of phaenological notes, mostly from the 

 vicinity of Macon and Washington, Ga., kindly furnished me by 

 Miss E. F. Andrews (author of Botany All the Year Round), 

 and of my own notes made in all parts of Georgia in the last ten 

 years. Some correction has of course been made for difference 

 of season in different latitudes, when collating notes of this kind 

 from the northern half of the state. Plants in the Altamaha Grit 

 region have just as definite flowering periods as those anywhere 

 farther north, however the same species may behave in sub- 

 tropical Florida and farther south, where there is not so much 

 distinction between seasons. 



The treatment of each species ends with a synopsis of its known 

 geographical distribution, first with considerable detail as to its 

 occurrence in other parts of Georgia, based on personal ex- 

 perience, and then its total known range, compiled from various 

 manuals, monographs, and local floras. In discussing distribution 

 within the state a distinction is often made between the upper 

 third and the upper fourth of the coastal plain. By upper third 

 is meant all north of the Altamaha Grit, and by upper fourth all 

 north of the pine-barrens, or in other words only the Cretaceous 

 and Eocene regions and fall-line sand-hills. 



The total ranges I have attempted to correlate as far as pos- 

 sible with the physiographic divisions outlined near the beginning 

 of this work, but the data for doing so are as yet much less com- 

 plete than might be desired, for in most floras hitherto published 

 ranges are given in terms of political divisions only. It should 

 be borne in mind that the pine-barrens so frequently mentioned 

 below always constitute only a part of the coastal plain (in 

 Georgia about two-thirds) , so that a species confined to the pine- 

 barrens is in that respect always more restricted in range than 

 one merely confined to the coastal plain. 



The ranges here given have been compiled principally from 

 Mohr's Plant Life of Alabama (which is about the only work of its 

 kind in which natural divisions are made almost as prominent as 

 political ones), and Small's Flora of the Southeastern United 



