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BRASENIA Schreb. 

 B. purpurea (Mx.) Caspary. 



Like Castalia, this does not properly belong to our flora. It 

 grows in ponds along the escarpment in screven and 

 wilcox, and adventive in Heard's Pond, thomas County, 

 with the preceding, and in accidental ponds (caused by 

 building a railroad embankment across branches without 

 allowing any outlet) in the northern corner of telfair and 

 adjacent portions of dodge. Fl. May-June. 



General distribution in North America about the same as that 

 of Castalia odorata. Said to grow also in Cuba, Central 

 America, Asia, Africa, and Australia, but probably it is 

 not native in all that territory, or else there is more than 

 one species involved. The same or a related species has 

 been found fossil in Europe. 



MAGNOLIACEjE. 

 LIRIODENDRON L., Sp. PI. 535. 1753. 

 L. Tulipifera L., 1. c. (Tulip Tree.) "Poplar." 



Chiefly in branch-swamps, frequent throughout. Apparently 

 a little more abundant in colquitt than in any other county 

 in our region. Fl. April. Probably grows in every county 

 in Georgia, reaching its best development in mountain 

 valleys. 

 Ranges throughout the Eastern United States between lati- 

 tudes 30 and 4 2 . 



MAGNOLIA L., Sp. PL 535. 1753- 

 M. grandiflora L., Syst. ed. 10. 2 :io82. 1759. "Magnolia" 1 

 "Loblolly." 

 Hammocks, bluffs, Altamaha Grit escarpment, etc. ; frequent 

 but not abundant, emanuel, tattnall (1862) , Montgomery, 



DODGE, TELFAIR, COFFEE, WILCOX, BERRIEN, DOOLY, WORTH, 



thomas, decatur, and doubtless in the remaining counties 

 as well. (Magnolia P. O. in Mitchell County, which seems 

 to be on or near the escarpment, is in all probability named 



» How the technical name Magnolia could have penetrated to some of 

 the remotest rural districts is a problem for the philologist. 



