Notes on the distribution of some plants observed in traveling 
through. the coastal plain from Georgia to New York 
in July, 1909 
ROLAND M. HARPER 
On my way northward through the coastal plain in the latter 
part of July, 1909, by the route described in the August number 
of the BULLETIN, and shown in part on the accompanying map, 
I noted nearly 250 species of plants, as any other traveler familiar 
with the flora could have done under similar circumstances. On 
comparing my notes afterward with statements in botanical litera- 
ture relating to the regions traversed, I found, as often happens, 
that I had some facts not generally known, and therefore worth 
mentioning, about the distribution of some of the species. Some 
of the simpler or less important cases have already been mentioned 
briefly under the several natural geographical divisions, or vegeta- 
tion provinces, described in my previous paper, while those of 
special interest will be treated more fully here.* 
In the present paper I wish to call special attention to several 
species of plants which, although they have been credited to Vir- 
ginia by many authors, have not been seen in that state recently, 
if at all. None of these species whose status in the ‘“Manual 
region’? is now questioned were known in Clayton’s time (the 
first half of the eighteenth century), so that his ‘‘Flora Virginica,”’ 
which is believed to be based on a large amount of field work in 
the coastal plain of Virginia, throws no light on the subject. All 
but two were known to Michaux, but his ‘‘Flora Boreali-Americana”’ 
(1803) does not assign to any of them ranges extending farther 
north than North Carolina. All but one or two began to be 
credited to Virginia in the first half of the nineteenth century, ~ 
and have been given a place in most floras covering the north- 
eastern United States, up to and including | the latest, that of 
*In rosea = pbeesrses of these plants I shall make frequent references 
particularly that of 1906—through the same general 
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region, as well as = previous 5 tinker which I have cited elsewhere. 
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