136 ECONOMIC BOTANY OF ALABAMA. 



COAL PLATEAU REGION. 

 ( Paa:es 47-5 •^) 



Fic. !>. DeSoto Falls on Little River, Lookout Mountain, 

 DeKalb Co. The rock is sandstone of the Coal Measures. 

 ( This place is mentioned several times in Mohr's Plant Life 

 of Alabama.) Photoo;raph by R. S. Hodg-es, July -iH 1904. 

 The volume of water is doubtless considerably greater in 

 spring. 



Fic. 10. F^ortion of the great natural bridge of Winston 

 Co., viewed from the head of the ravine which it spans. A 

 beech (fagiis) can be seen on the bridge, and a tall hemlock 

 or spruce pine (Tsiii^a Canadensis J in the ravine below, its 

 top extending beyond the limits of the picture. ( This is prob- 

 abl\- the first photograph of a hemlock — or a natural bridge — 

 in Alabama ever ]xiblished. ) The white specks around the 

 base of the hendock are the large fallen leaves of the cucumber 

 tree ( Mni^^iiolin macro['li\Ua I , l_\-ing u])side down. November 



17, ion. 



