422 HARPER: VEGETATION OF THE COASTAL PLAIN 
HERBS 
13 (Senecio tomentosus) 3 Habenaria blephariglottis 
7 Eupatorium rotundifolium 2 Pontederia cordata 
6 Anchistea virginica 2 Saururus ceynuus 
5 (Daucu 2 Pteris aquilina 
5 Scirpus Eriophorum 2 (Oenothera biennis) 
4 (Rynchospora inexpansa) 2 Nymphaea advena 
3 sieceears artemisiifolia) 2 Sabbatia angularis* 
3 Typha latifolia 
os 4 the above species are especially characteristic of 
bottom-lands. But Acer rubrum, Pinus serotina, Magnolia glauca, 
Smilax laurifolia, Eupatorium rotundifolium, Anchistea, and Habe- 
naria indicate occasional sandy bog conditions, perhaps connected 
with prongs of the Dismal Swamp 
The only plants in this list that had not been seen farther 
south are Daucus Carota and Saururus cernuus. The former, a 
well-known weed, appeared commoner than any native herb all 
the way from the southern boundary of Virginia to New York, 
except in the New Jersey pine-barrens. Pinus serotina, Arun- 
dinaria,t} Phoradendron, Senecio tomentosus, Rynchospora inex- 
pansa, and a few species noted only once and therefore not men- 
tioned here, were not seen north of Norfolk. 
From Newport News on the coast (in latitude 37°) to Richmond 
at the fall-line, a distance of 75 miles, the country is moderately 
undulating (with considerable bluffs along some of the estuaries), 
the soil rather loamy, and the forests comparatively dense, 
with no suggestion of pine-barrens. The proportion of cleared 
land was less than I expected to find along a railroad 28 years old, 
in a region that has been settled for 300 years,t but perhaps 
very little of the forest is primeval. 
A considerable portion of this peninsula between the York and 
James rivers has been described by Burke & Root in their soil 
survey of the “Yorktown area,’’ published in April, 1907. There 
are few direct references to this part of Virginia in botanical 
*Seen only near the second mile-post north of Northwest, Va., which is pretty 
close to the only station recorded for it by Mr. Kearney 
fSeveral years ago I saw this from the Pennsylvania R. R. at a point between 
Washington and Baltimore which Dr. Forrest Shreve tells me is the only known sta- 
tion for it in Marylan On this trip I looked for it again there but did not happen 
to see it. 
tMy route passed within six miles of Jamestown and still nearer to Yorktown. 
