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BOTANICAL GAZETTE. 



There is very little of the freshness and the exuberance of vegeta - 

 ble growth which, farther north, characterize the time. There is. 

 literally, no spring, no period of complete transition, no universal 

 awakening into life. Plants doze through the mild winter and are 

 quite undecided what to do, even when the equinox is past. The 

 Star Anise and the Magnolias simultaneously bloom, unfold their 

 new shoots and drop last years leaves. The winter annuals are 

 ripening their seeds and dying when, by the calendar, we should 

 only expect young leaves and opening buds. 



Another feature of the southern forests, noticeable even here, 

 where the luxuriance of growth is much less than on the rich allu- 

 vial lands, is the great number of vines and showily blooming trees 

 and shrubs. Over a muddy bayou hang the Cherry. Laurel, the 

 graceful Euonymus, the Styrax and the Farkle-berry with its deli- 

 cate sprays of bloom, all interwoven with the wiry stems and pro- 

 fuse gold of the Yellow Jessamine, and hung with the tawny red 

 trumpets of the Cross Vine. Or. later, beneath the Magnolias and 

 Sweet Bays are thickets of gleaming Hydrangea and Itea, overrun 

 with the scarlet Honeysuckles and the fragrant Forsteronia. In 

 the herbaceous growth of the open barrens Leguminosce are now 

 greatly in preponderance, although I judge that in the advancing 

 summer they will be displaced bv the coarser Composite. 



APRIL. 



Magnolia grandifiora, L. 



glauca, L. 



acuminata, L. 

 Malva rotundifolia, L. 

 Modiola multifida, Mcench. 

 Drosera brevifolia, Pursh. 

 Geranium Carolinanum, L. 

 Rhus copallina, L. 



Toxicodendron, L. 

 var quercifolia. 

 var. radicans. 



aromatica, Ait. 

 Vitis Labrusca, L. 



vulpina, L. 

 Ampelopsis quinquefolia, Michx 

 Euonymus Americana, L. 

 Polygala Boykinii, Nutt. 



fasti giata, Nutt. 

 Sesbania macrocarpo. Muhl. 

 Stylosanthes elatior, Sw. 

 Scbrankia uncinata, Willd 

 Psoralea melilotoides, Michx. 



var. eglanduiosa ( ?) 

 Decumaria barbara, L. 

 Speculariapeifoliata, A. DC. 



Ludoviciana, Torr. 

 Fedia radiata, Michx. 

 Maruta Cotula, DC 

 Erigeron strigosum, Muhl 

 [lex opaca, Ait. 



Dahoon, Wait 



decidua, Walt. 

 Lobelia Nuttallii, R. & S. 

 Catalpa speciosa, Warder. 

 Pentstemon pubescens, Sol. 



gracilis, Nutt. 



Digitalis, Nutt. 

 Plantago major, L. 



Virginica, L. 

 Pcdicularis Canadensis, L. 

 Verbena Aubletia, L. 

 Scutellaria serrata, Andrews 



parvula, Michx. 

 Dianthera humilis, Gray. 

 Ruellia ciliosa, Nees. 

 Physalia Pcnnsylvanica, X., var 



angulata, L. 

 Capsicum annuus, L. (nat.) 

 Datura Tatula, L. 

 Spigelia Marylandica, L. 

 Asclepias variegataj L. 



tuberosa, L. 

 Asclepiodora viridis, Gray. 

 Polygonum incarnatum, Ell 



hydropiporoides, Michx 



acre, HBK. 



aviculare, L. 

 Euphorbia corollata, L. 



var. angustitolia 

 Otitis Mississippiensis, Rose 

 Pilea pumila, Gray. 



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