TORREYA 



November, igog 

 Vol. g No. II 



CAR-WINDOW NOTES ON THE VEGETATION OF ,.^„^„^ 



LIBRARY 

 THE DELAWARE PENINSULA AND NEW YORK 



SOUTHERN VIRGINIA BOTANICAL 



By Roland M. Harper GARDEN. 



For some reason not altogether obvious, the flora of those 

 parts of the eastern United States where either Pinus Taeda or 

 Pinus echinata is the most abundant tree is rather uninteresting, 

 as it consists of comparatively few and widely distributed species ; 

 and such regions are consequently not much frequented by 

 botanists and not often described in botanical literature. Of this 

 character is a considerable- part of the Piedmont region of the 

 Carolinas and Georgia, the summits (not the slopes or gorges) of 

 the Carboniferous plateaus of Alabama, and those parts of the 

 coastal plain which are outside of the ranges of Pinus rigida, P. 

 palustris, and P. Elliottii ; particularly in the neighborhood of 

 Chesapeake Bay, and in northwestern Alabama, northern Missis- 

 sippi, western Tennessee, southeastern Arkansas, etc.* In all 

 these regions there are indeed some limited areas of seacoasts, 

 swamps, rock outcrops, or other more or less exceptional geo- 

 graphical features which serve to diversify the flora and break 

 the monotony, but in the prevailing short-leaf pine forests there 

 is little to attract a botanical collector. Nevertheless, the vege- 

 tation of such places deserves to be studied just as much as that 

 of the more favored regions where there is more excitement in the 

 way of rare plants to be had.f 



The pine-barrens of New Jersey and those of the southeastern 

 states have been celebrated botanizing grounds for a century or 

 more ; but in the corresponding regions between the Delaware 



* .See Torreya 7 : 44-45; Science II. 25: 541- I907- 

 I See Torreya 6 : 45. igo6 ; 8: 156. I908. 

 [No. lo, Vol. 9, of ToKREYA, Comprising pages 197-216, was issued October 26, 

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