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In our territory its usual host is Nyssa biflora, and it grows 

 wherever that does, in swamps and ponds, screven, bul- 



LOCH, TATTNALL, MONTGOMERY, COFFEE, WILCOX, IRWIN, 



berrien. dooly. Distributed nearly all over Georgia. 



Widely distributed in the Eastern United States south of 

 the glaciated region. 



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

 5 1487. 1901. 



MORACEiE. 

 MORUS L., Sp. PI. 986. 1753. 

 M. rubra L., 1. c. Mulberry. 



In our territory only where the Lafayette formation seems to 

 be absent, in rich or slightly calcareous soil. Montgomery: 

 Stallings' Bluff ; berrien: Woods west of Tifton (see p. no) ; 

 dooly: Around the Rock House. Fl. spring. More com- 

 mon farther inland, particularly in the Palaeozoic region 

 (Northwest Georgia). 



Widely distributed in the Eastern United States. 



ULMACEiE. 

 ULMUS L., Sp. PI. 225. 1753. Elm. 

 U. alata Mx., Fl. 1 : 173. 1803. 



dooly: In lime-sink between Wenona and the Rock House, 

 near the Altamaha Grit escarpment, Sept. 1, 1903 (1963). 

 A large tree. More common farther inland, like most other 

 species growing along the escarpment. 

 Widely distributed in the Southeastern United States. 

 What is probably another species grows in some of the muddy 

 river-swamps. 



PLANERA Gmel., Syst. 2 :15c 1791. 

 P. aquatica (Walt) Gmel., 1. c. Hornbeam. (Water) Elm. 

 River-swamps, screven, bulloch (2080), tattnall, Mont- 

 gomery, coffee. Fl. Feb.-March. Pretty widely dis- 

 tributed in South Georgia, from Crawford and Wilkinson 

 Counties to Mcintosh and Clinch. 

 North Carolina to Florida, Illinois, and Texas, in the coastal 

 plain. 



