Atlantic or Eastern Forest Region. 11 



(1876), Allen (1878), Packard (1883), Jordan (1883). Hartlaub & 

 Newton (1886), and Heilprin (1887). 

 The three divisions will be considered separately. 



Atlantic or Eastern Forest Region. Many writers have recog- 

 nized an eastern forest region stretching from the plains to the 

 Atlantic and in a general way from the boreal or coniferous 

 forests of the north to the alluvial lands of the South Atlantic 

 and Gulf States ; but its northern and southern limits have 

 been by no means agreed upon. Schouw denned these bound- 

 aries as the limit of trees on the north and latitude 36 on the 

 south, and named the region Michaux's Realm or Realm of Asters 

 and Solidagos. Berghaus retained Schouw's southern boundary, 

 but took off a broad belt on the north, which he named the Realm 

 of Coniferous Forests. The resulting northern limit as shown on 

 his map (1838) agrees closely with that adopted by such recent 

 writers as Wallace (1876), Allen (1878), Packard (1883), and 

 Heilprin (1887), all of whom, on the other hand, carry its south- 

 ern boundary south to the Gulf of Mexico, thus making it co- 

 extensive with the Atlantic or Eastern Province already referred to. 



Several early writers, among whom Schouw and Berghaus w r ere 

 prominent, recognized this region in the east, but knew nothing 

 of the great interior plains, and consequently spoke of it as ex- 

 tending all the way to the Rocky mountains. 



The extent to which this Eastern Forest region has been 

 recognized, together with the approximate north and south 

 boundaries assigned it, will appear from the following table : 



NOTE. In the columns showing limit on the north and south the fol- 

 lowing abbreviations are used : L. T. = northern limit of trees ; C. F. = 

 northern coniferous forests ; A. = Austroriparian or Louisianian region ; 

 G. = Gulf of Mexico. 



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