DYER’S HOLLOW. S1 
greener kind of poverty grass (//udsonia 
ericoides), imviting pillows or cushions of 
which, looking very much alike at a little 
distance, were scattered freely over the 
grayish hills. These huddling, low-lying 
plants were among the things which bestowed 
upon Longnook its pleasing and remarkable 
mountain-top aspect. The rest of the veg- 
etation was more or less familiar, I believe: 
the obtuse-leaved milkweed, of which I had 
never seen so much before; three sorts of 
goldenrod, including abundance of the fra- 
erant odora; two kinds of yellow gerardia, 
and, in the lower lands at the western end 
of the valley, the dainty rose gerardia, just 
now coming into bloom; the pretty Polygala 
polygama, — pretty, but not in the same 
class with the rose gerardia; ladies’ tresses; 
bayberry; sweet fern; crisp-leaved tansy; 
beach grass; huckleberry bushes, for whose 
liberality I had frequent occasion to be 
thankful; bear oak; chinquapin; choke- 
berry; a single vine of the Virginia creeper ; 
wild carrot; wild cherry; the common brake, 
—these and doubtless many more were 
there, for I made no attempt at a full cata- 
logue. There must have been wild roses 
