KX) PLANT LIKK oK ALABAMA. 



t"()iui(l. how t'vci'. thai in lhi>|)l:iiil an ahii()>l inrraflicabh' jx-stircroiis 

 weed had lifcii iiit iixhiccd, its cult i\ at ion was rcstricU'd 1<» h)W, 

 uii<lraint'd tiacts. unlit for dthcf ciMps. Althout^li jx'iichcs, phmis, 

 pears, the Til:, and j^rapcs succeed on the ri(l«res, the cultivutioii of 

 these fruits is much neelected. and (h»e-- not sui)|)l\ e\('n a small pait 

 of tlic home demand. 



MAKITIMK I'INK l{K<;i()N. 



The t^i'eat hell of lon«(-U'iif pine forest, whicii extends almost w ithout 

 interrvi})ti()n from soutln'astern Virginia over the eoast rejjion of the 

 Atlantic States to tlie h)wlands of the Mississippi Rix'ei'. adjoins on its 

 southern border the C-entrul l*rairie helt. 



II'HKK DIVISION (>!•■ TIIK COAST I'lXK Hi:i/I' oK UK(iIi)N oF MIXKl) IKIvK (JKoWTII. 



I*]iijKi(Ki rujiliiciil frutnnx. — In tl»e upp<'r part of this ))ine belt, from 

 South Carolina to eastei'ii Mississippi, a mixed orowth of pine and 

 l)road-leaved evero-reen trees altei-nates with Indts or rather strips of 

 pure long-h>af pine forest. In Alabama this region of cone-bearing 

 and broad-leaved evergreen and deciduous trees is eontined within the 

 limits of the older Tertiary strata, which in this Statecover about one- 

 half of the area of the Coast Pine belt, although the beds of drifted 

 sands and gravels of a more reeent formation overlie the older rocks 

 in larg(^ areas. In its climatic conditions this region differs ])ut slightly 

 from the foregoing. Its floral chai'acter is difiicult to define. Broadly 

 stated, it consists in the increased frequency'' of types which are at home 

 in the Louisianian aiM^i, and in distinction fi'om regions farther north, of 

 a tree growth in which, though otherwise similar, the long-leaf pine in 

 its highest development predominates. Equallj^ difficult is the estab- 

 lishment of the limits of this floral region. It has been already men- 

 tioned that the tree growth in the eastern part of the Central Prairie 

 region is scarcely to l)e distinguished from the forest flora of this 

 region. Toward the west the border is more clearly outlined by the 

 hilly uplands of th(> lowest Tertiary strata rising above the Cretaceous 

 l)lain. The southern border of this region is frequenth'^ overlapped 

 l)y the pure forests of long-leaf pine of the lower division of the Coast 

 Pine belt, and it can be defined on stratigraphical grounds onlj' b}^ 

 being identified with the lines which mark the most southern outcrops 

 of the imderlying Tertiary rocks. Defined on this basis the area in 

 question contains about 9,000 square miles, occupying the following 

 counties or portions of counties: Parts of Sumter; all or nearly all of 

 Choctaw, Clarke, Monroe, Butler, Conecuh; portions of Covington, 

 Montgomery, Bullock, Barbour, Pike, and nearly all of Coffee, Dale, 

 and Henry. Along its northern border where the lignitic strata pre- 

 vail the uplands rise to an elevation at the highest of about 400 feet 

 above tide water, spreading out into table-lands of greater or less 



