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8. The Western Unwooded or Sparsely wooded Region, char- 
acterized by prairies, oak-openings, &c. To which are appen 
The Alpine and Subalpine Region, forming a few isola 
patches in the second district. 
6. The line of Sea-coast, or Maritime District. 
I. The Southeastern District—If, from the intersection of the 
80th parallel of longitude with the southern boundary of Vir- 
inia a line be drawn northeast to Washington and the city of 
ew York, it will very nearly mark the inland limits of this 
district, except that a narrow prolongation of it, somewhat modi- 
fied in character, skirts the coast as far as to Cape Ann, and 
Vanishes at the southern point of Maine. The Pine-Barrens of 
New Jersey represent this district fully. Its prevalent forest- 
growth consists of Pitch Pines and Oaks, especially of the Span- 
ish Oak, Post Oak, and Black Jack, and in low grounds of Red 
and White Maples and Birch. Few of the forest trees proba- 
bly were ever large and stately, at least at the north. The char- 
acteristic trees and largest shrubs are Pinus rigida and P. inops, 
and at the south P. Teda and Taxodium distichum, Cupressus 
thuyoides, Betula alba and nigra, Castanea pumila, Quercus fuleata, 
Phellos, and aguatica, Ilex opaca (which at the south passes inland 
to the flanks of the mountains), Liquidambar styraciflua, Chionan- 
thus Virginiea, Itea Virginica, Clethra alnifolia, Azalea viscosa, 
us parvifolia, Acer dasycarpum, Magnolia glauca, and at 
the south Persea Carolinensis, with several southern trees (such 
as Quercus virens, Olea Americana, &c.) which however oceur 
only on the coast of Virginia. Other most characteristic shrubs 
are Gaylussacia dumosa and frondosa, Leucothot racemosa, and at 
Prinos) gla 
the south L. agillaris, Andromeda Mariana, Ilex (Prinos) glabra, 
ema Conradi and Comptonia asplenifoha at the north, and 
a cerijera along the whole line of coast e species 
pis, restnosum, album and aromaticum, Aster 
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