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Salt air and sandy soil attract their ow7i flowers. Among them 

 are plants 7vith stiff, unyielding foliage, of a stern and defying sort, 

 which venture so close to the ocean that they are watered with its 

 salt spray. Others, of a teftderer character, creep behind the protect- 

 ing dunes, nestling in hollows, craving shelter frotn the fierce gales. 

 Actual coast vegetation is sparse. There are no trees, and only a 

 few hardy shrubs. The shore is joined to the country by a skirting 

 fringe of pines, oaks, cedars, and locusts, beneath whose shade still 

 other species are content to dwell. 



TJie flowers grouped in this cJiapter may, some of them, like the 

 Canadian bur net, have crept inland ; but most are recognised as 

 belongiftg to the sea-shore. 



Some flowers that grow in salt marshes and pine barrens tiear 

 the coast are here included. 



