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The most common evergreen trees of the bay are sweet bay 

 (Magnolia glauca) and red bay (Persea pubescens). They are 

 both extremely abundant and characteristic. The sweet bay is 

 not entirely evergreen with us. There are specimens in Burnt 

 Bay that reach the unusual height of 35 feet. The loblolly bay 

 (Gordonia lasianthus) is not nearly so common as the two pre- 

 ceding, but is found scattered near the edges of nearly all bays. It 

 is quite evergreen, and when covered with its fine white flowers 

 it is one of our handsomest trees. Around the edges of Burnt 

 Bay cinnamon fern or poor man's soap (Osmunda cinnamomea) 

 is plentiful, and there is a little bracken fern (Pteris aquilina) 

 and royal fern (Osmunda regalis). In the deeper and more shady 

 inner parts are scattered beds of chain fern (Woodwardia areo- 

 lata), and in shallow standing water or mud is the large, coarse, 

 swamp fem,Woodwardia virginica. 



In the low damp woods along the north side of the bay grow 

 old-field pine (Pinus Taeda), long-leaf pine (Pinus palustris), 

 white hickory (Carya alba), dogwood (Cornus florida), sassafras 

 (Sassafras variifolium), Spanish oak (Quereus falcata), willow 

 oak (Quereus Phellos), water oak (Quereus nigra), and the fol- 

 lowing shrubs: sparkleberry (Vaccinium arboreum), Vaccinium 

 teneUum, Gaylussacia frondosa, Myrica cerifera, Lyonia mariana, 

 Ascyrum stans, and Ascynim hypericoides. The pretty herb- 

 aceous vine called carrion-flower (Smilax herbacea) and the wild 

 yam (Disoseorea villosa) are also to be found in these woods. In 

 an open damp meadow here (savanna conditions) was found 

 Juneus abortivus for the first time in South Carolina. With it 

 were Rhexia virginica, Gratiola pilosa, Gratiola virginiana, 

 Baeopa acuminata, Ludwigia linearis, Xyris caroliniana, and 

 Lobelia Nuttallii. 



The edges of Burnt Bay are in most places either too abrupt or 

 too shady to admit of the best development of many of the 

 attractive flowers that are often associated with bay conditions, 

 although most of them may be found sparingly at places around 

 its margin. For the study of such flowers it is best to cross over 

 Prestwood's Lake to the edges of the bays surrounding the 

 savanna-like open area in Captain Cannon's sheep pasture 

 (referred to in the list as "Sheep Pasture Savanna"). The 

 meadow-like area of a couple of acres is low, moist, and sandy, 

 but too well drained to show typical savanna vegetation. It is 

 bounded on both sides by low bays and the transition between 



