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poplar and others are seen. But in the interior, where the 

 trees are all pine, the f^ora is more limited. In the Blue 

 Anchor tract, the writer saw four varieties of the huckleberry, 

 the blueberry, the blue and black seedy berries and the dainty 

 sugar clusters, all at home among the pines. The teaberry 

 and the arbutus were half hidden by the pine chats, while the 

 pipsissewa, both green and striped, was more obvious. 



Chicken grapes were numerous ; one vine had clambered 

 to the top of the highest pine, at whose base, in a bed of 

 velvety moss, close by a famous mushroom, was a whip-poor- 

 will's shoe. Sweet fern lost its charm, when, too late, alas! 

 it was discovered to be the habitat of a species of the acaridan 

 arachiiids , which to us, in simpler language, meant legions of 

 seed ticks. 



Everywhere the cow wheat seemed to welcome us ; it is a 

 low branching plant, with small, greenish-yellow, solitary 

 flowers in the axils of the upper leaves. The calyx is bell- 

 shaped and the corolla is two-lipped. It is exceedingly 

 common among the pines, seeming as much at home there as 

 the trees themselves. In the mixed portions of this forest 

 was the kill-calf, noted for its fantastic roots ; also the laurel, 

 holly and wild plum. 



In a small, cleared area were lichens, sedges, Indian grass, 

 wood violets and daisies of every size and hue. 



Among the birds of the pines are the pheasant, flicker, 

 woodpecker, jays, warblers, finches, quail, owls and crows. 

 The chewink was abundant. The blue heron and other water 

 birds are in the vicinity of streams, where the angler enjoj's a 

 chance at the famous pickerel. The raccoon, squirrel, mink, 

 opossum, weasel, toad, turtle and mice are here; also lizards 

 and snakes without number, especially the water snake and 

 the pine snake, well known tenants of the pine lands. 



Among the insects is the moth, which kills the growing 

 twigs; the scale insect, that sucks the plants' juices: the 



