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ville, on December lo, 1903, to find the long-leaf pine common 

 on its upper slopes. Pine Mountain, it should be explained, is a 

 peak of quartzite rock, about 260 miles from the coast, forming- 

 part of the bold escarpment which marks the inland edge of the 

 Metamorphic region and overlooks the broad valleys and low 

 ridges of Palaeozoic rocks to the northwestward. The summit 

 of this mountain, according to the topographic maps of the U. S. 

 Geological Survey, is 1,500 feet above sea-level and about 800 

 feet above the Etowah River at its southern base. Going up the 

 mountain from the river, Pinns paliistris is first encountered at 

 about the 1,000-foot contour, and continues the rest of the 

 way up, the tops of some of the trees being less than ten feet 

 below the summit of the mountain. It is principally confined to 

 the southern slope, where it is the predominating tree above 

 the altitude mentioned, and is associated with such plants as 

 Ptcriduim aqui/imini, Piiius ecliinata, Aiidropogoii scopariiis, A. 

 Virginicus, Alctris farinosa, Qncrcns Marylandica, Q. Primis, 

 Cracca Virginiana, Ccaiiotliiis Americamis, Viola pcdara, Dasy- 

 stoina pectinata, Fjipatormin albmn, Clirysopsis graminifolia, Soli- 

 dago odora, Sericocarptis linifoliiis, SilpJmnn compositum, Helian- 

 tlnis divaricatus, and Coreopsis viajor Oenilcri, all but one or two 

 of which are common inhabitants of dry pine-barrens in the coas- 

 tal plain. (A visit to this place in summer would of course re- 

 veal a much larger number of species.) A similar flora is found 

 in the corresponding portions of Alabama, according to Dr. 

 Mohr,* and on the southern slopes of the mountains of south- 

 western Middle Georgia.! 



On the date above mentioned, and again three days later, I 

 had the novel experience of standing in a forest of long-leaf pine 

 while viewing some of the highest mountains in the state, many 

 miles to the northeastward, which were covered with snow at 

 that time. (I could also see Stone Mountain, 42 miles southeast, 

 and many nearer peaks.) Pine Mountain is at present the north- 

 easternmost known station for Piiius palustris in the mountain 

 region, and is within 40 miles of the known range of Pi)iits 



* Contr. U. S. Nat. Ilcrh. 6 : 59-61. 1901. 

 t Bull. Torrey Club, 30 : 294. 1903. 



