TORREYA 



October, 1910 

 Vol. 10 No. 10 



A FEW MORE PIONEER PLANTS FOUND IN THE i^,^ 



METAMORPHIC REGION OF ALABAMA f^aw^^^ 



AND GEORGIA '^^^^A/v/c 



By Roland M. Harper 



In a few comparatively recent papers* I have announced the 

 discovery in the Piedmont region and mountains of Alabama and 

 Georgia of several species of plants previously supposed to be 

 confined to the coastal plain, or nearly so; and as every county 

 in Alabama and all but a few of the more inaccessible ones in 

 Georgia have now been visited by botanists, it seemed a short 

 time ago as if the possibility of additional discoveries of this 

 kind must be almost exhausted. But in June of this year, when 

 I had occasion to spend a few days among the mountains of 

 eastern Alabama and western Middle Georgia, I found that this 

 was by no means the case. 



On the 6th and 7th of the month named I was on the Blue 

 Ridge where it forms the boundary between Talladega and 

 Clay Counties, Alabama, a few miles south of Cheaha Mountain, 

 the highest point in that state. f (All the plants mentioned 

 below as occurring on this ridge were seen on the southeastern 

 slope, in Clay County, within a few miles of Erin and Pyriton.) 

 On the 8th and 9th I explored parts of the Pine Mountains 

 of Meriwether County, Georgia, within a few miles of Bulloch- 

 ville (Warm Springs) and Woodbury, where I had found many 

 interesting things in 1901 and 1908. 



There are some interesting similarities and differences between 



*For Alabama, Torreya 6: 111-117; Bull. Torrey Club 33: 523-536. 1906; for 

 Georgia, Bull. Torrey Club 30: 294. 1903; 36: 583-593. 1909. 



fits altitude is .supposed to be 2,407 feet. Some interesting notes on the vege- 

 tation of this ridge can be found on pages 58-64 of Mohr's Plant Life of Alabama. 

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