424 HARPER: VEGETATION OF THE COASTAL PLAIN 
barren bog plants, together with those of Daucus Carota and per- 
haps a few others, offered for sale in the markets by negro women. 
I had never found the first two myself within many miles of Rich- 
mond, but one would not suppose they had been brought very far 
for such a purpose, and it would be interesting to learn just where 
they did grow. 
From Richmond to Doswell (via Hanover) my route was 
within a few miles of the fall-line, and from Doswell to Philadel- 
phia it would seem from a small-scale map to be right on the fall- 
line, but in reality the coastal plain sediments overlap the meta- 
morphic rocks a little all along here, so that the latter were hardly 
ever visible except on the banks of rivers. It will be safe enough 
therefore to regard the vegetation along this route as belonging 
to the coastal plain, as I did in the fall-line sand-hills of the Caro- 
linas. 
Some botanical notes made along very nearly the same route 
have been published by Prof. L. F. Ward.* The soil survey of 
Hanover County, Virginia, by Bennett and McLendon, published 
in May, 1907, covers a small part of it. 
It is 84 miles, the way I went, from Richmond to Quantico, 
where I stopped taking notes on account of darkness. In this 
distance the following plants were noted. 
TREES 
30 Pinus Taeda 
26 Pinus virginiana 
35 Liquidambar Styraciflua 
16 Liriodendron Tuli pifera 
14 Acer rubrum 
14 Quercus alba 
13 Betula nigra 
13 Cornus florida 
11 Salix nigra 
11 Pinus echinata 
9 Quercus Phellos 
7 Fagus grandifolia 
5 Quercus palustris 
5 Quercus falcata 
4 Platanus occidentalis 
3 Quercus stellata 
3 (Robinia Pseudo-Acacia) 
SHRUBS 
18 Alnus rugosa 3 Cephalanthus occidentalis 
9 (Sassafras variifolium) 
HERBS 
12 (Daucus Carota) 
6 Pteris aquilina 
7 Scirpus cyperinus ? 
3 Nelumbo lutea 
Quercus palustris and Robinia here appear for the first time 
(the latter introduced), Betula nigra and Nelumbo for the 
*Bot. Gaz. 11: 32-38. 1886. 
