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THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY 



Two CiNCHoxA Trees. 



cactus-like mistletoes are tliickly scattered. These half parasites win 

 out in the struggle against drouth hy allowing other plants to find water 

 for them. 



In the moist hollows, or on northern slopes of Cinchona Hill, many 

 plants of temperate zones have established themselves, being brought 

 there, presumably, with vegetable seeds imported from England. Clover, 

 dandelion, dock, mullein, plantain and yarrow grow beside the trail. 

 Wild strawberries bloom and ripen throughout the year. Side by side 

 with these old acquaintances are thick clumps of the spicy-flowered wild 

 ginger, and, towering over them are orchids and begonias as high as the 

 head, canes and bamboos twenty feet tall, gray-barked, red-leafed cin- 

 chona trees and brilliant-flowered Melastomaceous shrubs. The lantana, 

 Cherokee rose, passion flower, prickly-leafed ferns and the wiry-stemmed 

 grass Chusquaea clamber over every thicket. Ferns abound everywhere, 

 in sun or shade, and in moist or dry situations. Along one trail from 



