158 ECONOMIC BOTANY OF ALABAMA. 



POST OAK FLATWOODS. 

 (Pages 9r)-9r.) 



Fin. 35. Post-oak flatwoods near Curl, Sumter Co. Trees 

 mostly short-leaf pine (Piiiits ccliiiiata) and post oak (Qucrcus 

 sfcllata). The best pines have been cut out. Feb. '^8, 1913. 

 This is probal)ly the first photooraph of the vegetation of this 

 region ever pul)lished. 



SOUTHERN RED HILLS. 

 (Pages 97-103.) 



Fic. 3(). Looking southeast across valley of l>ogue Loosa 

 Creek in the "mountains" of Choctaw Co., at Land, a new 

 flag station about two miles south of West lUitler. on a rail- 

 road that has been in operation only about a year. Trees in 

 foreground mostly short-leaf ,pine (Pin us echinata). The 

 nearest house has a chimney of Burhstone. the rock which 

 makes these mountains. Many ])iles of split oak stave-bolts 

 can he seen around the settlement. In this mountain country, 

 as in the real mountains farther inland, clearings and houses 

 are chictiv confined to the vallevs. .-\])ril K, 1913. 



