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EBENACE.E. 



DIOSPYROS L., Sp. PI. 1057. 1753. 



D. Virginiana L., I.e. "Persimmon." 



Usually in dry pine-barrens, but also in swamps and shallow 

 (not cypress) ponds and on sand-hills, screven, tattnall, 



MONTGOMERY, TELFAIR, COFFEE, IRWIN, BERRIEN. Fl. 



spring. Never very large in our territory, and in dry pine- 

 barrens usually only a shrub. (Perhaps does not fruit in 

 that condition.) Common nearly all over Georgia. This 

 has perhaps the greatest adaptability to different habitats 

 of any North American tree. It seems equally at home in 

 the maritime counties and in the mountains, in ponds and 

 lime-sinks and on sand-hills, in old fields and in creek- 

 bottoms. It is liable to turn up almost anywhere within its 

 climatic limits, perhaps on account of the readiness with 

 which its seeds are transported by small quadrupeds. 

 Ranges nearly throughout the Eastern United States south of 

 latitude 41 . 



VACCINIACEiE. 



VACCINIUM L., Sp. PI. 349. 1753. 

 V. nitidum Andr., Bot. Rep. 7: pi. 480. 1807. "Gopher Berry." 

 (Perhaps including V. Myrsinites Lam.) 



Dry and intermediate pine-barrens and low places in sand- 

 hills. BULLOCH, TELFAIR, APPLING, COFFEE, BERRIEN, 



thomas. Fl. spring. Common in the flat pine-barrens 

 toward the coast. Evergreen. 

 South to central Florida. 



V. spp. 



One or two larger species (deciduous) grow in sandy places 

 along the Ohoopee River in Tattnall County. One was 

 observed with ripe fruit June 26, 1903, and another in the 

 same condition April 26, 1904. 



BATODENDRON Nutt, Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. 11.8:261. 1843. 



B. arboreum (Marsh) Nutt., 1. c. "Sparkleberry." 



Hammocks, sand-hills, and bluffs; common. Often associated 



