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RUBUS L., Sp. PI. 492. 1753. 

 R. cuneifolius Pursh, Fl. 1 1347. 1814. "Brier-berry." 

 Roadsides, old fields, etc., and perhaps sometimes in dry pine- 

 barrens. BULLOCH, DODGE, WILCOX, IRWIN, BERRIEN, COL- 

 QUITT, and probably all other South Georgia counties. Fl. 

 spring. 

 Connecticut to Florida, Missouri, and Louisiana, mostly in 

 the coastal plain, but natural range and habitat uncertain. 



R. Nigrobaccus Bailey, Ev. Nat. Fr. 306, 370, 379. /. 59, 60. 



1898. Blackberry. 

 Damp woods and swamps, apparently only where the Lafayette 



formation is thin or absent, coffee, berrien. Also in 



similar situations in Camden County and elsewhere in 



South Georgia. 

 Owing to uncertainty of specific limits in this genus the 



range of this cannot be given satisfactorily. 



R. Trivialis Mx., Fl. i .'296. 1803. Dewberry. 



Dry pine-barrens, or perhaps oftener a weed, screven, 



emanuel, bulloch. Fl. spring. Common in old fields in 



Middle Georgia. 

 Widely distributed in the Southeastern United States, but 



natural range and habitat uncertain. 



HAMAMELIDACE.E. 

 LIQUIDAMBAR L., Sp. PI. 999. 1753. 

 L. Styraciflua L., I.e. "Sweet Gum." 



Common in river-swamps and on bluffs and rock outcrops, 

 also often in moist pine-barrens, where it is only a shrub 

 (and apparently sterile). Fl. March. Grows all over the 

 state, reaching its best development north of our territory, 

 in swamps or alluvial bottoms. 

 Common from Connecticut to Missouri, Florida, and Texas. 

 Also in Mexico and Central America, if it is all the same 

 species. 

 Leaf-anatomy studied by Kearney, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herbs 

 5:490. 1901. For a discussion of some other properties 

 of this species see Bull. 58, U. S. Bureau of Forestry. 



