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then waxy yellow, pink, red, purplish, and finally almost black; all 
these shades at once in a small bush, sometimes covering it as com- 
pletely as did the flowers in April or May; it is a most attractive shrub, 
and the fruit, prepared by some native Cape Codder, makes delicious 
pies and preserves. In May and June the lupine abounds, growing 
in dense clumps on sandy stretches; it seems even more luxuriant than 
in more favored stations, and the racemes range in color from nearly 
true blue to pinkish purple. In stations too desolate even for the 
lupine the Hudsonias abound, both И. tomentosa and Н. ericoides. 
‘They usually grow in dense clumps, each a single plant, the branches 
twisted like a Japanese dwarf tree; often there is nothing but bare 
sand between the clumps. When the wind blows, as it almost always 
does in Eastham, the sand drifts and catches among the branches of 
the Hudsonia, forming a dome-shaped heap inside the clump, some- 
times only the tips of the branches projecting; in such cases the plant, 
without enough leaf surface free to maintain its life, throws all its 
energies into a dense and brilliant coating of yellow flowers. The 
bearberry, Arctostaphylos Uva-ursi, is very abundant, the shining 
leaves carpeting large stretches of sand; the wild carrot, Daucus 
Carota, is everywhere in the fields; in summer and early autumn 
Chrysopsis falcata abounds, with its own particular shade of yellow. 
Corema Conradii is frequent and showy in spring, but not so general 
as the other plants just mentioned. Few species of trees occur, but 
the pitch pine is everywhere, forming dense forests of stunted indi- 
viduals; some fifty or sixty years ago it was planted extensively in the 
most barren places, and one can still trace the regular rows in which 
it was set out. Now it is continually spreading, covering large areas 
that were cultivated fields fifty years ago. Black snakes are plentiful 
among the pines, and have the pleasing habit of hanging by the tail 
from a limb, looking like a broken branch until you come in contact 
with them. The locust, Robinia Pseudo-Acacia is common, evidently 
long ago escaped; there are some scrub oaks, but few other trees, 
Of cryptogams other than algae, there are few noticeable species. In 
moist places are often stretches of densely packed Woodwardia vir- 
ginica; common brake grows under the pines; other ferns are not 
much in evidence. Trees and fences are often completely covered 
with a lichen of the bright yellow that one sees only near salt water; 
crisp Cladonias alternate with the blackberry vines in the fields, but 
there are no rock lichens, as there are no rocks to support them. 
