HARPER: 
VEGETATION OF THE COASTAL PLAIN 
407 
In the following crude sketches of the regions passed through, 
the plants which I was able to identify in each are divided into 
trees, shrubs, and herbs, in my accustomed manner, and to each 
is prefixed the number of times it was noted from the train, with 
this modification: namely, wherever a species was very abundant 
(and so indicated in my field notes) I have counted it twice, just 
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FIGURE I. Map showing some of the vegetation provinces described herein, 
and the author's travels in the coastal plain between Virginia and Georgia from 1900 
to 1909. 
others 
Compiled from car-window notes and the maps of Kerr, Hammond, and 
as if I had noted it twice between two consecutive mile-posts (as 
I might easily have done if I had been on a slower train). 
Species 
noted only once in a distance of 75 miles or less, or not more than 
twice in a distance of over 75 miles, are omitted. 
