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in this region almost all of the seedlings that start as epiphytes as, for 

 example, in the mossy covering of a fallen log, soon exhaust their 

 moisture supply and succumb to drouth; but occasionally one gets a 

 root down into the ground and continues to grow. On Queer Creek, 



Fig. 13. TliL' JJuttom ol' Kunkle s liollcw, !■ urnu'vly Oi-c-upicd liy the Hemlock Forest. 



one such birch sapling was noticed, iji tliis case Beiuhi htica, which had 

 started on a hemlock stump nearly a meter ffom the ground. It had 

 reached a diameter of nearly a decimeter, was supported on "stilts" 



