ALTAMAHA GRIT REGION OF GEORGIA 333 



{ Liquidambar Styracifl.ua. 



| Hamamelis Virginiana Phoradendron flavescens 



Itea Virginica ( Quercus pumila 



Magnolia glauca -j Castanea pumila 



Asimina parviflora ( " alnifolia 



( " speciosa Alnus rugosa 



•s " angustifolia ( Myrica Carolinensis 



( Polygonella Croomii -l " cerifera 



( " pumila 



It will be observed that a few species, notably Magnolia glauca, 

 are included in more than one of the foregoing lists of woody 

 plants, but this is done advisedly. Magnolia glauca occurs in 

 our territory as one of the largest trees in non-alluvial creek- 

 swamps, as a small tree in branch-swamps, and as a low shrub 

 in moist pine-barrens; and these three forms seem perfectly dis- 

 tinct as far as size is concerned (but probably not in any other 

 way.) In other words, there is no reason to suppose that the 

 shrubs in the moist pine-barrens will ever become trees, or that 

 the small trees in the branch-swamps will ever become large 

 trees. Whether the shrubs ever come directly from the seeds of 

 the trees, and vice versa, is another question. Similarly in the 

 case of Liquidambar, there seem to be no intermediate stages 

 between the shrubs in moist pine-barrens and the trees in river- 

 swamps. 



Our woody vines are as follows: 



Lonicera sempervirens Berchemia scandens 



Tecoma radicans Rhus radicans 



Bignonia crucigera Wistaria frutescens 



Trachelospermum difforme Rubus trivialis 



Gelsemium sempervirens Decumaria barbara 



Pieris phillyreifolia Brunnichia cirrhosa 



Parthenocissus quinnuefolia Smilax auriculata 



Ampelopsis arborea " laurifolia 



Vitis aestivalis " Walteri 

 1 ' rotundif olia 



The herbaceous vines are somewhat more numerous, namely: 



Climbing. Trailing. 



Mikania scandens Mitchella repens 



Cuscuta indecora Breweria humistrata 



" compacta " aquatica 



Phaseolus polystachyus Lespedeza repens 



Apios tuberosa Meibomia Michauxii 

 Galactia mollis " arenicola 



" regularis Zornia bracteata 



Bradburya Virginiana Morongia uncinata 



Clematis reticulata Krameria secundiflora 



