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Strawberry Bush {Euonymus americanus) . 



Sugar Maple (Acer saccharum) . 



Red Maple (Acer rubrum). 



Box Elder (Acer negundo). 



Sweet Buckeye (Aesculus octandra). 



Muscadine Grape (Vitis rotundifolia) . Corbin, Horse 

 Creek. 



Frost Grape (Vitis sp. ) 



Stewartia pentagyna. Clear Creek. 



Dogwood (Cornus florida)) . 



Kinnikinnik (Cornus amornum). 



Great Laurel {Rhododendron maximum). 



Mountain Laurel (Kalmia latifolia). 



Sorrel Tree (Oxydendrum arhoreum). 



Checkerberry (Gaultheria py^ocumhens) . 



Buttonbush ( Cephala7ithus occidentalis) . 



The woody growth of all sorts is being cleared away 

 rapidly, and merchantable timber will not last many years 

 longer. It is important on many accounts that the State 

 bestir itself soon to the end that its young forest growth 

 may not also be destroyed, 



BACTERIA. 



I did not take a compound microscope with me, and so 

 could do little with the microscopic organisms. No doubt 

 the waters would furnish a rich field of study in this line. 

 The suggestion sometimes made that something of this sort 

 in drinking water is responsible for pellagra led me to look 

 at springs used by pellagrins with some interest. At the 

 Roark cottage at Gary the surface of the ground sloped 

 toward the creek, and at the bottom of this slope a hundred 

 feet from the house and perhaps twenty-five from the edge 

 of Straight Creek is the spring. It is badly located with 

 reference to the house, and the flow from it is sluggish. 

 From its situation and character one would expect people 

 using it to suffer from bowel troubles as the very least of 

 its ill effects. A sample of this water was taken October 23, 

 in a sterile bottle, and brought to Lexington with me. The 



