Vol. 5 No 



TORREYA 



April, 1905 



NEW YO'IK 

 BOfANfCAL 



GAR DUN 



SO Mr: NOTEWORTHY STATIONS FOR PINUS 

 PALUSTRIS 



By Roland M. Harper 



While collecting timber specimens for the Georgia State Mu- 

 seum during the winter of i903-'04, I had exceptional opportuni- 

 ties for studying the distribution of Pinus palustris in the north- 

 western quarter of that state. Although it has been known for 

 some time that this characteristic tree of the coastal plain is found 

 far inland in Georgia and Alabama, scarcely anything has been 

 published in regard to its exact distribution in Northwest Georgia.* 



Consequently I was not a little surprised on ascending Pine 

 Mountain f in Bartow County, about three miles east of Carters- 



* Tlie occurrence of long-leaf pine in northwest Georgia must have been known to 

 the white settlers as soon as that part of the state was taken from the Indians, about 

 70 years ago, but I have found no record of this fact in botanical literature dating 

 back more than 25 years. Professor Sargent in his Catalogue of Forest Trees, 

 published in 1880, says of this tree, "not extending more than lOO miles from the 

 coast," and in his report for the Tenth Census, published four years later, he says 

 " rarely e-xtending beyond 150 miles from the coast." But Ur. Mohr, in a report 

 on the forests of Alabama, published in 1880, vaguely refers to the occurrence 

 of this species on the mountains of that State. (And in his "Timber Pines of 

 the Southern United States" and "Plant Life of Alabama," published many years 

 later, numerous details are given. ^ In 1883 Messrs. J. L. Campbell and \V. 

 H. Ruffner, in a pamphlet entitled "A Physical Survey in Georgia, Alabama and 

 Mississippi, along the line of the Georgia Pacific Railway, embracing the Geology, 

 Topography, Minerals, Soils, Climate, Forests, and Agricultural and Manufactur- 

 ing Resources of the Country," mention the occurrence of Pititts />a/us/n's in Polk 

 and Haralson counties and adjacent Alabama. In a book entitled " The Com- 

 monwealth of Georgia," published by the State Agricultural Department in 1885. 

 there is a forestry map showing among other things a narrow belt of long-leaf pine 



(--jentering the state near Tallapoosa and terminating near Kingston. Some car-win* 



^dow observations on this belt by the writer were published a few years ago (Bull. 

 Torrey Club, 28: 455. 1901). 



^ t Not to be confused with the Pine Mountains of Meriwether and adjoining coun- 

 ties. See Bull. Torrey Club, 30 : 292-294,/ j. 1903. 



T- [Vol. 5, No. 3 ,of ToRREYA, Comprising pages 37-54, was issued March 22, 1905.] 

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