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takes the place ofour V. prunifolium, but grows in much damper 
locations, bordering sluggish streams in low land. Very abun- 
dant in similar locations and growing with great luxuriance is 
Magnolia glauca. Some of the swamps in the vicinity of these 
streams were covered with forests of Zaxodium distichum. 
Quercus Phellos was the commonest oak. Other shrubby or 
arborescent species on drier ground were Castanea pumila, [lex 
glabra and J. opaca. Of these the last named was abundant, 
large, and very handsome growing among other trees. The ribs 
upon the fruit of //ex glabra were very prominent and quite op- 
posed to the description given in our Manual. Another very hand- 
some small tree was the Symp/locos tinctoria, but a single specimen 
however being noted, and that having been removed from the ad- 
jacent forest to a door-yard. It was the only specimen which 
the residents had ever seen. In its general appearance it closely 
resembles a small orange tree. Lagerstremia Indica thrives 
finely and blooms freely in the open air, which will perhaps 
indicate, more clearly than anything else, the comparative 
mildness of the climate. Ina field a few miles from the shore 
grows a large mulberry tree, famous throughout the region. It 
is much earlier than its neighbors in the maturing of its fruit, 
which it continues to produce until the occurrence of killing frost. 
These fruits do not soften and decay as those of the common 
species, but become whitened, membranaceous and dessicated at 
the tip, remaining firm but juicy within for some time. The tree 
puzzled me very greatly until I learned that it was the com- 
_ mon Morns nigra of Europe. Tecoma radicans is thoroughly 
native, running everywhere over fences and in waste ground, and, 
in short, thoroughly imitating in its occurrence our Rhus vadi- 
cans. The prevalent. morning-glory is Jpomea Nil. <A 
specimen of Anemone Virginiana was collected in fruit with © 
the heads of fruit doubled ; that is, apparently two heads laterally 
coherent. Polygala was well represented by five species. P. 
verticillata was typical. A form was found which it was dif- 
ficult to place either in P. sanguinea or P. fastigiata. Among 
Hypericums the typical 1, Canadense was supplemented by many 
_ forms approaching in varying degree toward H. mutilum. Of 
_the latter, specimens reaching the height of over two feet, and very 
