﻿Harper: 
  A 
  week 
  in 
  eastern 
  Texas 
  293 
  

  

  F 
  

  

  82 
  of 
  the 
  University, 
  entitled, 
  '' 
  Distribution 
  and 
  adaptation 
  of 
  the 
  

   vegetation 
  of 
  Texas," 
  using 
  in 
  the 
  latter 
  some 
  of 
  the 
  same, 
  half- 
  

   tone 
  illustrations 
  as 
  in 
  his 
  government 
  bulletin, 
  but 
  including 
  

   notes 
  on 
  shrubs 
  and 
  herbs 
  as 
  well 
  as 
  trees, 
  more 
  ecological 
  specu- 
  

   lations, 
  and 
  an 
  abridged 
  bibliography 
  of 
  twenty 
  titles. 
  

  

  A 
  noteworthy 
  paper 
  on 
  eastern 
  Texas 
  vegetation, 
  not 
  cited 
  by 
  

   Bray 
  or 
  Winkler, 
  is 
  by 
  the 
  late 
  James 
  E. 
  Gow, 
  on 
  "An 
  ecological 
  

   study 
  of 
  the 
  Sabine 
  and 
  Neches 
  Valleys, 
  Texas" 
  (Proc. 
  .Iowa 
  

   AcaS.Sci. 
  12:39-47. 
  pl' 
  9-11. 
  1905). 
  . 
  This 
  divides 
  the 
  vegetation 
  

   of 
  the 
  area 
  treated 
  (which 
  was 
  mainly 
  in 
  the 
  long-leaf 
  pine 
  region) 
  

   into 
  six 
  habitat 
  groups, 
  and 
  lists 
  the 
  common 
  trees 
  and 
  a 
  few 
  

   other 
  plants 
  in 
  each. 
  About 
  the 
  same 
  time 
  appeared 
  U. 
  S, 
  Forest 
  

   Service 
  Bulletin 
  64, 
  on 
  "Loblolly 
  pine 
  in 
  eastern 
  Texas," 
  by 
  

   Raphael 
  Zon, 
  w^hlch 
  maps 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  other 
  regions 
  discussed 
  

   herein 
  and 
  describes 
  the 
  condition 
  of 
  its 
  forests 
  in 
  considerable 
  de- 
  

   tail 
  from 
  the 
  standpoint 
  of 
  the 
  professional 
  forester. 
  

  

  J 
  

  

  Krausz 
  

  

  illustrated 
  bulletins: 
  No. 
  3, 
  "A 
  general 
  survey 
  of 
  Texas 
  wood- 
  

  

  resources 
  

  

  of 
  eastern 
  Texas." 
  The 
  

   first 
  contains 
  a 
  small 
  but 
  pretty 
  good 
  soil 
  map 
  of 
  the 
  state, 
  by 
  a 
  

   local 
  specialist, 
  and 
  a 
  small 
  map 
  of 
  the 
  forest 
  regions 
  of 
  the 
  coastal 
  

   plain 
  portion, 
  which 
  fits 
  geographical 
  conditions 
  better 
  in 
  some 
  

   respects 
  than 
  the 
  maps 
  prepared 
  by 
  geologists 
  and 
  soil 
  investi- 
  

   gators. 
  

  

  One 
  of 
  the 
  few 
  "local 
  floras" 
  for 
  eastern 
  Texas 
  is 
  "A 
  list 
  of 
  

   trees 
  and 
  shrubs 
  occurring 
  in 
  the 
  vicinity 
  of 
  Huntsville, 
  Texas, 
  

  

  . 
  Sci. 
  12*: 
  66-90. 
  1913)- 
  

  

  9t 
  

  

  by 
  Carl 
  Hartman 
  

   This 
  is 
  an 
  annotated 
  catalogue 
  of 
  62 
  trees, 
  24 
  shrubs, 
  18 
  woody 
  

   vines 
  and 
  two 
  herbaceous 
  vines, 
  but 
  includes 
  25 
  introduced 
  or 
  

   cultivated 
  species, 
  and 
  a 
  few 
  of 
  the 
  shrubs 
  seem 
  to 
  be 
  wrongly 
  

   identified. 
  An 
  interesting 
  feature 
  of 
  the 
  list 
  is 
  that 
  nearly 
  all 
  

  

  e 
  

  

  tward 
  

  

  estward 
  

  

  edge 
  of 
  the 
  humid 
  area. 
  

  

  yf 
  the 
  writer. 
  — 
  In 
  J 
  

  

  east 
  to 
  west 
  where 
  it 
  is 
  widest, 
  but 
  on 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  fastest 
  trains, 
  

   with 
  little 
  opportunity 
  to 
  study 
  any 
  of 
  the' 
  vegetation 
  at 
  close 
  

  

  