58G Harper: Coastal plain plants in Georgia 



raised there except peaches, and those only in a few places. 

 Finns pahistrisx^ or has been abundant the whole length of the 

 Pine Mountains (whence their name), and the flora of the summits 

 and drier slopes has much in common with the dry pine-barrens 

 of the coastal plain. Most of the species are of pretty wide distri- 

 bution, however, and few need to be mentioned here. These 

 mountains were visited four times in September, in Upson County 

 on the 8th, Harris on the I2th, Pike on the 19th, and Meriwether 

 on the 24th. Oak Mountain, in Talbot and Harris counties, is a 

 ridge about half as high as Pine Mountain, a few miles south of it 

 and nearly parallel to it, with similar vegetation except that the 

 long-leaf pine seems to be absent, its place being taken by Pbms 

 echijzata. A few minutes were spent on the western end of this 

 ridge near Hamilton about sunset on September 12th. 



For pioneer bog or moist pine-barren plants the best places in 

 Middle Georgia seem to be a number of bogs and meadows a few 

 miles north of the Pine Mountains, some of which have been 

 mentioned in a previous paper. "*" On September 19th last year I 

 found another such meadow just south of Zebulon, in Pike County, 

 and a most interesting area about four miles farther south, or half 

 a mile north of Meansville, in the same county. Here there is 

 a shallow, nearly level valley, with sandy soil, and tall slender 

 specimens of Pinus Taeda, the only kind of tree in about 25 

 acres, except a few small gums {^Nyssa and Liquidavibar). Pimis 

 pahistrh grows sparingly on higher ground close by, but the val- 

 ley is apparently a little too moist for it. The vegetation of the 

 low grounds (which might be called the Meansville flatwoods for 

 convenience, as it will be referred to several times hereafter) is 

 somewhat intermediate in character between that of low pine 

 woods in southeastern Virginia f and that of the pine region of 

 Limestone County, Alabama,! and has many species in common 

 with both regions and with several other places where Pimis Taeda 

 is the prevailing tree. Besides the more noteworthy plants to be 

 mentioned farther on, I found at this place in passing through: 

 Heliantlms angustifoluts, Sericocarpus linifoliits, Etipatorium ver- 



*Ball. Torrey Club 30 : 294, 326, 1903. 



fSee Kearney, Contr. U. S, Nau Herb. 5: 396-405. 1901. 



X See Torreya 6 : 115-116. 1906. 



