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which were assembled almost all the different and 

 beautiful ever-green plants which before we had met 

 with only here and there, and dispersed. The sight of 

 such a splendid green coppice in the depth of winter, 

 (it was the 31st of December), could not fail to be 

 pleasing. These ever-greens are oftener to be found 

 along the coast, where the weather on the whole is 

 milder than farther inland. The most conspicuous of 

 those we found together here were : Ilex Aquifolium 

 (Holly). Ilex Cassine (Carolinian Holly or Japan). 

 Prinos glaber (Winterberry). Myrica cerifera (Can- 

 dleberry-Myrtle). Laurus Borbonia (Bay-tree). Big- 

 nonia sempervirens? (Yellow-Jasmine). Smilax lau- 

 rifolia and other varieties of this species, which how- 

 ever do not hold their leaves so well as this. Prunns 

 lusitanica (Evergreen-Baytree). Kalmia latifoliu & 

 angustifolia and divers Andromedae, which keep 

 their leaves longer here than in the northern regions. 

 Hopca tinctoria used for dyeing yellow, the leaves 

 are boiled half an hour, and the stuff soaked a quar- 

 ter of an hour in the poured-off infusion, while hot; 

 the color comes a fine straw-yellow ; cotton takes it 

 better than linen. Juniperus wrginiana (Red Cedar). 

 Cupressus thyoides (White Cedar), which often grows 

 trunks 60-100 feet long, and 12-15 ft. in circumfer- 

 ence at the butt. But they reach this extraordinary 

 height only in fat swamp-land, and where they are 

 protected by other trees against violent winds which 

 their shallow roots do not easily withstand. Pinus 

 Taeda, and other varieties of the species. 



But besides these shrubs and trees, commending 

 themselves to the eye by their enduring leaf, there are 

 many others both useful and beautiful. Cupressus 



