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  Harper: 
  A 
  week 
  in 
  eastern 
  Texas 
  

  

  near 
  Austin 
  and 
  thence 
  in 
  a 
  southeasterly 
  direction 
  to 
  the 
  Gulf 
  

   coast.* 
  The 
  trip 
  On 
  which 
  the 
  present 
  paper 
  is 
  based 
  did 
  not 
  take 
  

   me 
  southwest 
  of 
  iVustin, 
  and 
  consequently 
  the 
  following 
  observa- 
  

   tions 
  are 
  practically 
  confined 
  to 
  the 
  eastern 
  forest 
  region, 
  with 
  

   ample 
  rainfalL 
  

  

  Previous 
  botanical 
  work 
  in 
  eastern 
  Texas. 
  — 
  ^The 
  humid 
  portion 
  

   of 
  Texas 
  (which 
  is 
  approximately 
  the 
  northeastern 
  two 
  thirds 
  of 
  

   the 
  coastal 
  plain), 
  although 
  it 
  is 
  the 
  most 
  thickly 
  settled 
  and 
  

  

  i 
  

  

  accessible 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  state, 
  has 
  received 
  proportionately 
  much 
  less 
  

   attention 
  from 
  botanists 
  than 
  the 
  semi-arid 
  portions; 
  presumably 
  

   mainly 
  because 
  the 
  great 
  majority 
  of 
  the 
  plants 
  there 
  occur 
  also 
  

   east 
  of 
  the 
  Mississippi 
  River, 
  so 
  that 
  collectors 
  entering 
  Texas 
  

   from 
  the 
  East 
  have 
  generally 
  pushed 
  on 
  to 
  the 
  drier 
  regions 
  in 
  

   search 
  of 
  novelties. 
  

  

  This 
  state 
  of 
  affairs 
  is 
  well 
  illustrated 
  by 
  a 
  brief 
  history 
  of 
  

   botanical 
  investigation 
  in 
  Texas, 
  with 
  a 
  bibliography 
  of 
  about 
  125 
  

   titles, 
  by 
  Charles 
  H. 
  Winkler, 
  constituting 
  University 
  of 
  Texas 
  

   Bulletin 
  18 
  of 
  the 
  1915 
  series. 
  Of 
  the 
  works 
  cited 
  therein, 
  21 
  are 
  

   hard 
  to 
  classify 
  or 
  of 
  doubtful 
  value 
  as 
  far 
  as 
  descriptions 
  of 
  the 
  

   vegetation 
  or 
  flora 
  are 
  concerned, 
  several 
  of 
  them 
  dealing 
  with 
  

   only 
  one 
  species; 
  38 
  relate 
  to 
  Texas 
  and 
  some 
  additional 
  territory 
  

  

  Mexico 
  or 
  M 
  

  

  the 
  

  

  whole 
  state, 
  if 
  only 
  for 
  trees 
  or 
  some 
  one 
  family 
  of 
  plants; 
  34 
  are 
  

   restricted 
  to 
  the 
  regions 
  with 
  limited 
  rainfall, 
  and 
  only 
  7 
  to 
  eastern 
  

   Texas 
  alone. 
  If 
  omitted 
  papers 
  (some 
  of 
  which 
  are 
  mentioned 
  

   farther 
  on) 
  and 
  those 
  published 
  since 
  were 
  added 
  it 
  would 
  not 
  

   change 
  these 
  proportions 
  much. 
  

  

  Between 
  1892 
  and 
  1896 
  E. 
  N. 
  Plank 
  contributed 
  to 
  Garden 
  

   and 
  Forest 
  twenty-nine 
  narratives 
  of 
  botanical 
  trips 
  in 
  Texas 
  (all 
  

   of 
  which 
  were 
  overlooked 
  by 
  Winkler), 
  but 
  only 
  four 
  or 
  five 
  of 
  

   these 
  pertain 
  to 
  the 
  humid 
  portions 
  of 
  the 
  state. 
  (In 
  the 
  'ten 
  

   volumes 
  of 
  that 
  magazine 
  there 
  are 
  a 
  few 
  other 
  Texas 
  articles, 
  but 
  

   apparently 
  none 
  of 
  them 
  touch 
  the 
  area 
  under 
  consideration.) 
  

  

  Professor 
  William 
  L. 
  Bray, 
  while 
  at 
  the 
  University 
  of 
  Texas, 
  

   sketched 
  the 
  forests 
  of 
  the 
  whole 
  state 
  in 
  1904 
  in 
  Bulletin 
  47 
  of 
  

   the 
  U. 
  S. 
  Bureau 
  of 
  Forestr>', 
  and 
  again 
  early 
  in 
  1907 
  in 
  Bulletin 
  

  

  See 
  

  

  in 
  some 
  of 
  Professor 
  Bray's 
  papers 
  cited 
  farther 
  on. 
  

  

  