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The entire group occupies a piece of ground less than three feet in 

 diameter, and very likely has originated through root suckering from 

 a single plant. How the original plant got there is another question; 

 but from the location of the station — near the summit of a rocky 

 ridge which has never been inhabited, and fifty feet from the nearest 

 road, from which it is separated by a tangle of wood and thicket — 

 it seems certain that the plant was not introduced by human agencies. 

 Moreover, the redbud here occupies essentially the same sort of habi- 

 tat which it favors on trap ridges in eastern Pennsylvania: a moist, 

 rocky depression in oak-hickory woods, where it grows associated with 

 such other woody plants as basswood and butternut, silky cornel and 

 high bush blueberry, bittersweet and grape. In short, I have no 

 hesitation in accepting this Connecticut station for the redbud as 

 representing a northeastward extension in the known natural range 

 of the species, notwithstanding the fact that it apparently fails to 

 propagate itself further by seed. 

 Yale University. 



