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probably not been published. On a limestone ridge north of 

 Birmingham, in Jefferson county, it is quite plentiful. Flowering 

 specimens were collected there September 18, 1899. Thin lime- 

 stone soil seems to offer the most favorable natural conditions 

 for this tree, and the soil is of this character at all of the several 

 stations where I have seen it growing. 



Hicoria caroling -sEPTENTRiONALis Ashe. Notes on Hickories, 

 1896. 



I find this species rather common throughout the Piedmont 

 region of South Carolina and Georgia and have collected it as 

 far west as Birmingham, Alabama. I have found it growing in 

 the flatwoods, which are mostly low, clay lands, rather wet or at 

 times inundated, where it probably attains its greatest size, and 

 also, in contrast with the above, growing in thin soil on rocky or 

 gravelly hills, mostly of limestone formation. The largest speci- 

 men I have recorded is 7.5 dm in diameter, a tree growing io the 

 low woods near Clinton, South Carolina. 



Fraxinus Carolinian a Mill. Diet. ed. 8, No. 6, 1768. 



I found this tree during the season of 1901 at two stations 

 in North Carolina, growing, it seems to me, under rather unusual 

 conditions. At Rockingham it is quite common along the margin 

 of a millpond in red clay soil, and at Wadesboro it is growing 

 among the boulders of the rocky bed of a small stream. My 

 former collections have always been from river swamps or black 

 alluvial soil near streams. 



Acer leucoderme Small. Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, 22 : 367, 1895. 



This maple seems quite widely distributed. I have collected 

 it at many points, always in thin, rocky soil near streams. A 

 few stations that occur to me are Rome, Athens and Augusta in 

 Georgia; Dadeville, Collinsville and Birmingham in Alabama, 

 and at Chattahoochee, Florida. 



Ilex glabra (L. ) A. Gray. Manual, ed. 2, 264, 1856. 



What seems an unusual station for this shrub is one near 

 Carrollton, Georgia, where I found the species in a small swamp 



