524 Harper : Some Alabama plants 



Pinus serotina Michx. 



In Georgia this pine can be found almost anywhere in the 

 coastal plain except in the lime-sink region, but the only previous 

 record of its occurrence in Alabama which I have come across is 

 on page 192 of Mohr's Plant Life, where it is cited as the host of 

 a fungus collected in Lee County by Professor Atkinson. (And 

 even this is an error, according to Arthur and Kern.)* Last 

 winter I found this tree in Chilton County near Thorsby, in 

 Autauga between Prattville and Booth (these two localities being 

 in the region of the Tuscaloosa formation, corresponding approx- 

 imately with the fall-line sand-hills of Georgia and the Carolinas), 

 in the southeastern corner of Dale, and at several places in Hous- 

 ton, Geneva and Covington (the last three counties being in the 



pine-barren region, along the southern border of the state). There 

 can be little doubt that it will eventually turn up in many other 

 places in the southeastern quarter of the State. Just what keeps 

 it from extending farther west I am unable to say. 



In the last chapter of the revised edition of Mohr's Timber 

 Pines of the Southern United States (1897) is an excellent sum- 

 mary of the known distribution of this species up to that time, by 

 Dr. F. Roth. 



Tsuga canadensis (L.) Carr. 



Geographical names are sometimes of considerable assistance 

 in discovering little known geological, botanical or historical facts. 

 The name " spruce pine" is applied by the natives to several 

 different coniferous trees in the South, but in the mountains it 

 usually means either Tsnga canadensis or Pinus virginiana. On 

 March 30 last I happened to be passing through the village of 

 Spruce Pine, in Franklin County, and not seeing any of the latter 

 species in the vicinity, and being out of the known range of Tsnga, 

 I inquired as to the origin of the name, and was told that it was 

 derived from a tree similarly named, more rarely called hemlock, 

 which grew wild near by, some of it being within a mile to the 

 westward. Having about an hour to spare before train-time, I 

 hastened in the direction indicated, following down a branch f 



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* Bull. Torrey Club 33 : 415. August, I906. 



f See Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci. 17 : 24 (footnote). 1906. 



