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THE FLORA OF MISSISSIPPI. 



Vitis cordifoUa, 

 Rosa Cherokee, 



Gelsemium sempervirens, 

 Lonicera sempervirens, 

 Myrica cerifera (south). 



Crataegus spathulata, 

 Lindera benzoin, 

 Rhus copalUna, 

 Crataegus apiifolia, 



Common herbaceous forms growing on the uplands 

 and Loess slopes are the following: 



Rubus villosus, 

 Rubus trilialis, 

 ElephantopMS Carolinianus , 

 Equisetum robustum, 

 Heterotheca Lamarckii, 

 Arisaema Dracontium, 

 Ascyrum Cru x-andrae , 

 Galium pilosum, 

 Viola cucullata, 

 Viola villosa, 

 Ascyrum hypericoides , 

 Ruellia ciliosa, 

 Hydrocotyle interrupta, 

 Dichondra re pens, 

 Epiphegus Virginiana, 

 Podophyllum peltatum, 

 Sanicula Canadensis, 



Parthenium Hysterophorus, 

 Croton Texensis (south), 

 Aspidium acrostichoides , 

 Aspidium patens, 

 Asplenium ebeneum, 

 Pteris Cretica (Natchez 



bluffs), 

 Diodia teres, 

 Diodia Virginica, 

 Adiantum pedatum, 

 Mitch ella repens, 

 Eryngium prostratum, 

 Amphicarpaea monoica, 

 Geum album, 

 Spigelia Marilandica, 

 Desmodium rotundi folium. 



The lowlands of this region present only slight differ- 

 ences from the flora of the adjacent Delta lowlands as seen 

 by the brief list given below: 



Quercus alba, 

 Quercus prinus, 

 Quercus Michauxii, 

 Quercus lyrata, 

 Magnolia grandiflora, 

 Magnolia cor data, 

 Taxodium distichum, 

 Liquidambar styraciflua, 

 Nyssa sylvatica, 

 Nyssa uniflora, 



Fra xinus quadrangulata , 

 Fagus ferruginea, 

 Ilex opaca. 

 Ilex Dahoon, 

 Platanus occidentalis , 

 Carya olivaeformis, 

 Carya aquatica, 

 Salix nigra, 

 . detoides, 



/let-, aasycarpum. 



