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soil. The whole region is more in the nature of a mosaic than an even mixture of the several dominants within the same stand.

Attractive herbaceous wild-flowers are found throughout the region and almost throughout the year. In late January bluets, violets, mustards, spring beauty, and Micrantha appear, to be followed by daisies of various kinds, jack-in-the-pulpit, orchids, Iris, arrowheads, pickerel-weed, yellow-eyed grass, pipeworts, Spanish moss, day flower, spiderwort, lilies, wild onion, amaryllids, Iris, Canna, Burmannia, lizard's tail, birthworts, chenopods, pigweeds, umbrellaworts, carpetweed, water lilies, buttercup, Corydalis, poppies, roses, beans and peas in great variety, sennas, spurges, mallows, St. John's wort, passion flowers, loosestrifes, meadow beauties, evening primroses, wild carrots of great variety, dogbanes, milkweeds, morning-glories, Phlox, waterleafs, borages, verbenas, mints, nightshades, figworts, bladderworts, acanthaceous relatives, plantains, madders, valerians, cucurbits, lobelias, ragweeds, thistles, thoroughworts, Asters and relatives, sunflowers and relatives, bitterweed and relatives, dog fennel and relatives and dandelion and relatives.

Spring and fall are the two most showy seasons, with summer, especially during dry seasons, much less so.

Reference to the distribution map shows a fragment of this region separated from the main portion by a considerable strip of oak-hickory. This fragment is located mostly in Bastrop County. Other fragments not represented on the map are found in Lee and Caldwell counties. They are thought to be relict remains of a once much more extensive forest which existed when the humid area extended much farther westward than at present. With the decrease of rainfall, pine was forced to withdraw eastward to the present western boundary of Region 17, except for these few small stands, which, occupying soil unusually adapted to them, were enabled to maintain themselves.