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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.† (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 Bullochville (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. Its altitude is supposed to be 2,407 feet. Some interesting notes on the vegetation of this ridge can be found on pages 58-64 of Mohr's Plant Life of Alabama. [No. 9. Vol. 10, of TORREYA, comprising pages 193-216, was issued September 23, 1910.] these two ranges of mountains. Each consists for the most part of a single prominent ridge trending approximately northeast and southwest, and they are also alike in being formed of sandstone rocks (presumably pre-Cambrian in age, for they contain no fossils), and having long-leaf pine more abundant than any other kind of tree on their slopes. The Pine Mountains, however, are about 1,000 feet lower than the Blue Ridge and half a degree farther south (being the southernmost mountains in the eastern United States). Some of the most interesting finds in the way of coastal plain plants in both states were made in wet ravines on the mountain slopes. These ravines all contain small clear streams, beginning gradually near their heads and varying in length with the wetness of the season, and of course descending rapidly in the usual manner of mountain rivulets. The bottoms and sides of the ravines are strewn with loose subangular rocks of various sizes, FIG. 1. Pinus palustris on rocky slope of a ravine on a spur of the Blue Ridge northwest of Pyriton, Alabama. June 7, 1910. but there are very few cliffs or waterfalls, at least in the smaller ones, their slopes being comparatively uniform. This is prob |