CULTIVATED PLANTS OF THE TABLE-LANDS. 79 
Of these the first is the most prominent, frequenting springy, rocky 
banks and dripping ledges, and the others are all more or less frequent 
in similar localities throughout the mountain region. Swrricenéa cates- 
hac? and [soetes engdimann? valida ave paludial plants so far only known 
in the State from the banks of Little River near De Soto Falls. There 
occurs also Danthonia glabra, a most rare plant, lately described, from 
upper Georgia (Nash), with Danthonia compresse and Deschaimpsca 
flernosa, so far not yet reported from any other locality in the State, 
while Caren vfrescens, Trarclla cordifolia, Asclepias quadrifolia, and 
Asarun macranthum frequent the rocky dells and more or less open 
copses. The tiny Arenaria breeifol/a, known from a few localities in 
upper Georgia and the Cumberland Mountains of Tennessee, roots in 
crevices of rocks among the dark-green cushions of mosses (Grimmia, 
Hedwigia), with the three-leaf stonecrop (Seda ternatin) and the 
round-leaf talinum (Zale terctifoliin), a fleshy perennial with 
rose-purple flowers adorning exposed rocks in the mountains north- 
ward to Pennsylvania. On the exposed rocks close to the edge and 
above the falls of Little River dense tufts of filiform leaves produced 
by a many-branched rootstock deeply sunk in the crevices attract the 
attention. Specimens of this plant in flower obtained in September 
proved to be Chondrophora virgata (Bigeloyia Nutt). The identity of 
our plant with Nuttall’s specimens is, however, not free from doubt. 
In the type collected by Nuttall in lover New Jersey and preserved in 
the Herbarium of the Academy of Sciences at Philadelphia the radical 
leaves, which furnish the decisive character, are wanting; furthermore, 
the similarity to Authanda yraminipolia ascribed by Nuttall to his type 
is not recognized in our plant. The locality quoted by Nuttall is also 
doubtful, his plant having never been found afterwards, although the 
ground has been closely investigated by later botanists. 
Under the umbrageous cover of the high foreston the upper flanks of 
the mountain, in the deep soil, rich in humus, tall umbelliferous herbs 
are conspicuous, among which are Ligustienm canadense, frequent 
throughout the mountains northward to Pennsylvania, Thasp/ium pin 
natindum, ad Thaspium barb/node, which extends north to the Ohio 
Valley. Together with these occur Oralis Yrandis, Polygonatum COMI 
mutautun, Widely distributed through the Alleghenian area, Ze///fui 
stylosum of the southern Appalachian ranges, and Cypripedium acautle, 
found in more open bogey places. 
Cultural plant associations. Scarcely 20 per cent of the area of the 
table-lands is reduced to a state of cultivation; the rest consists of 
more or less devastated woodlands and of high forests, which, how- 
ever, near the settlements and highways of commerce are largely 
stripped of merchantable timber and are suffering from the inroads of 
fire and cattle. 
Scarcely more than a quarter of a century ago, before these table- 
