122 



PlNUS PALUSTRIS Mill. 



Seems very rare in Virginia, but commoner in the coastal plain 

 of North Carolina, especially on the sand-hills. Where none of 

 this pine is in sight from the railroad its occurrence in the vicinity 

 may often be inferred from the presence of wood-burning loco- 

 motives on the numerous branch roads, even several miles west 

 of the fall-line. The two winter resorts in Moore County, Pine- 

 hurst and Southern Pines, of course take their names from this 

 species. Some turpentine has been extracted from it near Pine- 

 bluff, in the same county. 



PlNUS SEROTINA Michx. 



On the morning of the ioth I found several small trees of this 

 species, fruiting abundantly, in low grounds in Norfolk County, 

 Virginia, about three miles southwest of Portsmouth. The char- 

 acteristic long persistence of the cones was well shown by the 

 fact that some of them remained attached to limbs which had 

 grown to a diameter of an inch and a half. To make sure that 

 there was no mistake about the species (which was not previously 

 known to occur north of North Carolina, and is not mentioned 

 in floras of the Northern States, or even in Mr. Kearney's Dis- 

 mal Swamp report), fresh specimens were immedately sent back 

 to Washington for verification. 



Other plants occurring at the same place were Pteridium aqui- 

 linum, Sclcria triglomerata, Aletris farinosa, Liquidambar Styra- 

 ciflua, Polygala lutea, Rhus copallina, Acer rubrum, Gaylussacia 

 frondosa and Eupatorium ovaiiim. 



The next day I saw a good deal of this pine from the train be- 

 tween Portsmouth and Suffolk, where it often forms colonies 

 almost unmixed with other trees. Beyond Suffolk I did not see 

 it again until I reached the sand-hills of North Carolina, where 

 there is a good deal of it in the vicinity of Keyser and elsewhere. 



Chamaecyparis thyoides (L.) B.S.P. 

 Abundant for a few miles in Moore County, N. C, between 

 Aberdeen and Keyser, in non-alluvial swamps among the sand- 

 hills. I have not met with this species anywhere else south of 

 New England. 



