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burrow, in charge of the Alabama National Forest, in the sand- 

 stone plateau region of Lawrence and Winston Counties, that 

 there is a good deal of it in the central part of the latter county, 

 which adjoins Walker on the north. In April, 1922, I walked 

 through Winston County from about the center of its northern 

 border to Haleyville near its western edge, and although I did 

 not see any long-leaf pine, Mr. Lufburrow's observations were 

 confirmed by some of the natives with whom I talked. 



On the front cover of the Alabama School Journal (Birming- 

 ham) for May, 1922, there is a half-tone cut of a new school- 

 house in the eastern part of Walker County, with some long-leaf 

 pines in the background. That is several miles from any station 

 for this tree known to botanists. 



In the coastal plain of Alabama Pinus palustris is scattered 

 throughout the central pine belt (Cretaceous) on the poorer 

 soils from the eastern border of the state to about the middle of 

 Tuscaloosa County, but it had not been recorded northwest of 

 there. On Oct. 21, 1922, I was traveling from Fayette to 

 Tuscaloosa, a distance of about 40 miles, by an automobile 

 stage line recently established, and at a point estimated to be 

 about 15 miles south -southeast of Fayette (there were no mile- 

 posts along the road) Pinus palustris began to appear sparingly in 

 dry woods on sandy uplands (mapped as "Ruston fine sandy 

 loam" in the government soil survey of Fayette County, 1920). 

 I was assured by other passengers that this was well within Fay- 

 ette County, and thus another county was added to the list of 

 those in which it grows. 



A month later I traveled southeastward from Union, Missis- 

 sippi, on the Meridian & Memphis R. R. (which has been built 

 since the publication of the government soil survey of Lauderdale 

 County about ten years ago), and I noticed Pinus palustris 

 beginning near the village of Little Rock, about six miles from 

 Union, in Newton County, and becoming increasingly abundant 

 from there on to Meridian. Dr. Mohr's 1896 map does not 

 show it as occurring in Newton County or anywhere northwest 

 of Meridian, and the northernmost station mentioned in Dr. E. 

 N. Lowe's Flora of Mississippi* is Lost Gap, about eight miles 

 west of Meridian; but Dr. E. W. Hilgardf put its northern 



* Miss. Geol. Surv. Bull. 17. 1921. 

 t Geo). & Agric. Miss. 303. i860. 



