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fuuncl ail acre or less of granite or gneiss, partly flat and partly 

 steeply sloping, near the Coosa River in Chilton County. A few 

 days later, walking up the Tallapoosa River from Wadley, in 

 Randolph County, along a railroad which skirts the river for several 

 miles, I found a still smaller area of the same rock, too small to 

 show on the soil maj). with a few of the characteristic plants. 



View on the granite outcrop near Blake's Ferry, showing bare rock in the 



foreground, a clump of stunted cedars at left of center, and Nyssa sylvafica 



at extreme left. June 8, 1939. 



j\Iy first opportunity to visit any of the large outcrops in that 

 county came on August 3, 1938, when I was on a botanical trip 

 with Dr. H. K. Svenson, he kindly furnishing automobile trans- 

 portation. Earlier in the day we had visited the Chilton County 

 outcrop, and we were trying to find additional localities for some 

 of the characteristic plants occurring there. Around the village of 

 Almond, about three miles northwest of Wadley, we found many 

 acres of exposed granite, some domelike and some nearly flat, 

 which Dr. Smith had visited in 1874 and the soil surveyors in 1911. 

 It was late in the afternoon when we reached the place, and we 

 were still about fifty miles from where we had planned to spend 

 the night, but I made what notes I could and collected a few 

 specimens. 



The soil map shows a still larger rock outcrop a little west of 

 Blake's Ferry on the Tallapoosa River, about ten miles north of 



