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Sfro/)iLs. Some of the long-leaf pines there are over two feet in 

 diameter, and but for their inaccessibility they would probably 

 have been cut long ago. 



The distribution of the other pines on the same mountain is of 

 sufficient interest to merit a few remarks in passing. Finns 

 Tacda was seen only on the lower slopes, and did not seem to 

 associate with /'. paluslris 7\\. all. (It rarely ascends over i,ooo 

 feet above sea-level in any part of its range.) P. ccliinata ranges 

 a little higher, and a.ssociates with P. paliistris at the latter's lower 

 limit, near the i,ooo-foot level. P. Vh'giniana occurs at the 

 summit and nearly all over the northern slope, and associates with 

 P. paliistris at several places east and west of the summit. I 

 have never seen Finns Virginiana associated with P. palnstris 

 anywhere else, and their ranges are almost entirely distinct, only 

 overlapping a few miles in Georgia and perhaps in Alabama. 



I did not see the long-leaf pine elsewhere in Bartow County, 

 but the following month, January, 1904, I traced it through some 

 of the counties bordering on Alabama, namely, Floyd and Polk 

 in the Palaeozoic region and Haralson and Carroll in the Meta- 

 morphic. At the same time I was reliably informed of its occur- 

 rence in Chattooga County, which is just north of Floyd and must 

 be the northern limit of this tree in Georgia. 



In Floyd County, Finns palnstris is frequent on the dry southern 

 slopes of Horseleg Mountain near Rome and Heath Alountain 

 near Coosa (on Upper Silurian strata and about 1,000 feet above 

 sea-level in both cases), and it doubtless grows on other moun- 

 tains in the same county. On Horseleg Mountain the other 

 three pines mentioned above as occurring in Bartow County are 

 distributed in much the same way as on Pine Mountain, Finns 

 Tacda prevailing at the lower levels and P. Virginiana at the 

 higher levels. The mountain long-leaf pine is usually of lower 

 stature than that in the coastal plain, with shorter leaves and 

 shorter more crooked branches, all of which is a natural con- 

 sequence of the comparative severity of the climate. 



In Polk County, where mountains are scarce and the average 

 altitude of the country is about 800 feet, Finns palnstris occurs 

 frequently, but nowhere abundantly. Going from Polk County 



