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for this tree.) Fl. May-June. Widely distributed over 

 South Georgia up to within about ten miles of the fall-line. 

 (See in this connection Croom, Am, Jour. Sci. 25:314-315. 



1834.) 



North Carolina to central Florida, Arkansas, and Texas, 

 strictly confined to the coastal plain. 

 M. glauca L., Sp. PI. ed. 2, 755. 1763. "Bay." "White Bay." 



A small tree in branch-swamps, very common. Also in non- 

 alluvial creek-swamps one of our largest trees (2 J by 80 

 feet in coffee County), and in wet pine-barrens often 

 abundant as a knee-high shrub, 1 flowering and fruiting 

 freely. Noted in every county except Laurens and Mitchell 

 (but my work in the portions of those counties included in 

 this flora has been confined to about five miles of car-window 

 observations in each case). Fl. April- July. Ranges 

 throughout South Georgia, and inland to Carroll County in 

 western Middle Georgia, where it reaches a considerable 

 size. Abundant in Chattahoochee County, in the Cretaceous 

 region. 



Massachusetts (one station, doubtfully native), Long Island 

 (rare) and eastern Pennsylvania to central Florida, Arkan- 

 sas and Texas, mostly in the coastal plain. 



Leaf-anatomy described by Kearney, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 

 5 : 488-489. 1901. 



ANONACEJE. 

 ASIMINA Adans.,Fam. 2 : 365. 1763. Pawpaw. 

 A. parviflora (Mx.) Dunal, Monog. Anon. 82. pi. g. 1817. 



Hammocks, bluffs, etc. emanuel, tattnall, Montgomery, 



TELFAIR, COFFEE, WILCOX, BERRIEN. Fl. March-April. 



Widely distributed in Middle and South Georgia. 



North Carolina to central Florida and Mississippi (?), in the 

 Piedmont region and coastal plain. 

 A., speciosa Nash, Bull. Torrey Club 23 : 238. 1896. 



Only south of the Altamaha River, in dry pine-barrens, sand- 

 hills, etc. appling, coffee (1438), and the northeastern 



'A similar form has been noted by Dr. Hilgard in Jackson County, 

 Mississippi (Geol. and Agric. Miss., p. 368. $816. i860.) 



