Harper: Coastal plain plants in Georgia 585 



ern Middle Georgia, during which I took advantage of the oppor- 

 tunity to examine a good deal of territory never explored botan- 

 ically before, with the not unexpected result that I found several 

 species, most widely distributed in the coastal plain, which had not 

 previously been seen in Middle Georgia, though nearly all were 

 already known from upper Alabama. There is no need of apology 

 for placing on record those which are entirely new to the known 

 flora of the Piedmont region, and there are a few others which 

 have been seen so few times outside of the coastal plain that they 



deserve to be mentioned here in order to strengthen what little 



evidence we already have about their distribution and habitats in 

 these older regions. Notes on a few of the trees observed at this 

 time have already been published in Southern Woodlands * for 

 December, 1908, 



The species which are confined to the coastal plain or nearly 

 so are largely if not chiefly pioneer plants growing in wet places f 

 (especially moist pine-barrens), but a few prefer dry or compara- 

 tively rich soil. The localities in Middle Georgia which yielded 

 the most interesting results in the way of coastal plain plants last 

 year may be briefly described as follows : 



For pioneer xerophytes, the Pine Mountains stand preeminent. 

 Some allusion has already been made to this interesting outlying 

 range of mountains, | but a little further description will not be 

 out of place here. The Pine Mountains extend from the Atlantic 

 and Gulf divide in Pike County in a general west-southwest direc- 

 tion to the Chattahoochee River in Harris County, a distance of 

 about sixty miles. They are best developed midway between the 

 two ends, in the southern part of Meriwether County, where they 

 are divided into several ridges, the highest rising about 1,300 feet 

 above sea-level and 500 feet above the average of the surrounding 

 country. These mountains are formed of sandstone (the surround- 

 ing country is granitic), and their soil is naturally rather sterile 

 from the standpoint of the agriculturist, scarcely any crops being 



*A bi-monthly magazine of forestry published at Alliens, Ga, With the third 

 volume the title was changed to Forest^ Fish and Game. 



+ Conversely, those confined to the neighboring highlands are mostly climax 

 plants preferring comparatively dry soil. 



JBull. TorreyClub3G; 292-294. 335. 1903; Southern Woodlands i^: 13. 1907. 



