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berrien: Low woods west of Tifton, where the Lafayette 

 ' formation is presumably absent, Sept. 30, 1902. (See 



p. in.) In Sumter County I have seen it in a very similar 



place, with some of the same associates. 

 Virginia to South Florida, Tennessee, and Mexico, mostly in 



the coastal plain. Also in the West Indies and South 



America. 



C. sessilifolium (Walt.) Gmel., 1. c. 



Coffee: Seen only once in moist pine-barrens, Douglas, July 



21, 1902. Grows also in Pike (see Bull. Torrey Club 



30 : 294), Sumter, and Charlton Counties. 

 North Carolina to central Florida and Louisiana, in the coastal 



plain, with the above-mentioned exception. 



POLYPREMUM L., Sp. PI. in. 1753. 



P. PROCUMBENS L., 1. C. 



A weed in dry or damp sandy soil, tattnall: Collins; 

 coffee: Douglas. More common in older settled regions, 

 from Middle Georgia to the coast. Fl. all summer. 



Pennsylvania to South Florida and Texas. Also in the West 

 Indies and Mexico, where it is perhaps native. 



OLEACE^. 



OSMANTHUS Lour., Fl. Cochin, pi. 28. 1790. 

 0. Americanus (L.) Gray, Syn. Fl. 2:78. 1878. (Devil Wood.) 

 One of the most characteristic small trees of hammocks. Also 

 occasionally on bluffs or in non-alluvial swamps. Some- 

 times nearly a foot in diameter and 30 feet tall, emanuel, 



TATTNALL, MONTGOMERY, DODGE, TELFAIR, COFFEE, WILCOX, 



berrien, colquitt. Ranges inland to Stewart County and 

 coastward to the islands. In the Eocene region (particularly 

 in Randolph County) its usual habitat is shady ravines. 

 North Carolina to Florida and Louisiana, strictly confined to 

 the coastal plain. 



CHIONANTHUS L., Sp. PI. 8. 1753. 

 C. Virginica L., 1. c. Graybeard. 



On bluffs along the large rivers in Montgomery and wilcox. 



