Field notebook, 1940-1943
Page 40
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35 Dwarf plants. D. recemosa, with unusually long racemes, growing in shallow water; Vascinium virgatum var. tenellum; Day-lussacia dumosa (dwarf); Viola pugosa (?); Euphorbia. At Blackville, a white sand-hill area was first encountered with Amorica ciliata; Euphorbia Gecacanthae; Driedo-scolus stimulatus; Tridescentia rosea (not yet in bloom); Arnica ocaulis; Helienthomum (2 sp.). Abundant locally on these sandhills is Lippine diffusos, as far inland as Aiken. Here the soil changes to a more clayey aspect. Just west of Augusta on sandy hills, I collected Arenaria squarrosa, Euphorbia Gecacanthae, Viola pedata, and a heavy-leaved leguminous plant just coming out leaf, perhaps a Baptisia. Nothing of further interest appeared in the heavily eroded clay and sand country of Georgia until one of the species of Stokes Nut was encountered just east of Atlanta [Little Stone Mt.] Here on the sandy granite shelves and floors of the quarries were great masses of Arenaria glabra brachyfolia and Dianophya fusible, filling the moist places with white and pink. Senecio tomentosus, Schweinlerion crecum and Soncerus flowers occupied turf places chiefly at the summit, and in small pools, Isetes indanosporea. Spent the night in Atlanta. (April 18-Saturday). A cold blustery day. Water from the previous heavy rains still stands in the fields and spring flowering has not commenced. North of Atlanta the only plants in flower are a few Viola pedata and Oxalis violacea. A single plant of Lilium virginica on an exposed cliff toward Chattanooga was the only thing of interest otherwise. After passing Chattanooga some Phlox divaricata.