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limit in Mississippi at Patickfaw Creek in Kemper County, 

 which is about the same distance north of Meridian that Little 

 Rock is northwest. 



The lumbermen saw the pine in Newton County long before 

 I did, though, and have already cut out practically all the trees 

 worth taking. In that part of Missisippi it seems to be almost 

 confined to the rocky ridges of the Buhrstone formation (Eocene) , 

 locally known as mountains, which trend about northwest and 

 southeast;* and it is very much in evidence around Lost Gap, 

 where the Alabama & Vicksburg Ry. tunnels through the moun- 

 tains (the only tunnel in Mississippi). A logging road branching 

 off northward from the A. & V. Ry. west of the tunnel seems to 

 have reached out to the limits of long-leaf pine in that direction 

 even before the M. & M. R. R. was built. 



In this connection an alleged outlying station for this species 

 in Virginia that has never been verified should be mentioned. 

 All authorities agree that Pinus palustris is or has been found 

 in a few of the southeasternmost counties of Virginia, and 

 details are given in the county descriptions in W. C. Kerr's 

 report on cotton production, in the 6th volume of the Tenth 

 Census, 1884 (see pages 631, 635, 637); though there seems to 

 be no authentic record of its being seen in that state in the last 

 thirty or forty years. Dr. F. P. Porcher, in the second edition 

 of his "Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests," 1869, 

 states that it occurs in Powhatan County, which is in the 

 Piedmont region, farther north and also farther west than any 

 of the other reported Virginia stations. But it is possible that 

 some acquaintance of Dr. Porcher 's who was familiar with 

 Pinus echinata and P. Virginiana, the two common pines of 

 Piedmont Virginia, was traveling southeastward and saw Pimis 

 Taeda for the first time in Powhatan County, and mistook it for 

 P. palustris, which he had perhaps never seen. 



University, Ala. 



* For a description of the same mountain range in Alabama see Geo!. 

 Surv. Ala. Monog. 8: 98, 99, 159. 1913; and Spec. Rep. 1 1 : 29-30, 34. 1920. 



