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short-leaf; this is Pinus inops. Somewhat local are the beautiful 

 mountain laurel (Kalmia latifolia) and trailing arbutus (Epigcea 

 repens). 



Saxifrages are characteristic herbs of the rocky hills: they are 

 Saxifraga virginensis and Heuchera americana. Other herbs are: 

 early buttercup (Ranunculus fascicularis), white larkspur (Del- 

 phinium virescens), Alsine pubera, Indian pink (Silene virginica), 

 bird-foot violet (Viola pedata), purple wood-sorrel (Oxalis violacea), 

 Houstonia purpurea, "everlasting" (Antennaria plantaginifolia), 

 and phlox (Phlox reptans et amccna). 



The lesser valleys between the hills are fringed with the many- 

 tinted "bush honeysuckle" (Azalea nvdi flora), under which the 

 bare damp earth is flecked with bluets (Houstonia ca>rulea). Heavy 

 shade, haunted of Wood Thrushes and Acadian Flycatchers, is 

 cast by red maples (Acer rubrum) and white oaks (Quercus alba). 

 In open places is found the snowberry or coral-berry (Symphori- 

 carpos symphoricarpos). Here and there the hills are bordered 

 by swamps; and here black gum (Nyssa multi flora); alder (Alnus 

 rugosa) and 'bamboo' (Smilax spp.) grow, with ferns and white 

 violets flourishing between. The only fern requiring special notice 

 is a maiden-hair (Adiantum pedatum), growing on damp hillsides 

 above the swamps. 



By the brooksides grow crab-apple (Pyrus angustifolia) and 

 red maple; over these clamber honeysuckle (Lonicera sempervirens), 

 the naturalized Japanese honeysuckle (L. japonica), and bamboo 

 (Smilax rotundifolia) . Beneath grow spring beauty (Claytonia 

 virginica) and anemone (Syndesmon thalictroides) in the shade, 

 and cinquefoil (Potentilla canadensis) in the sun. Or, in lower 

 places, thickets of alder and thin groves of small willows (Salix 

 nigra) may form the stream-fringe. 



The old fields in the narrow levels between brooks and hills grow 

 the fragrant pink rose (Rosa rubiginosa) ; the feeble, trailing black- 

 berry (Rubus enslenii); and of herbs, speedwell (Veronica pere- 

 grina et arvensis), 'johnny jump-up' (Viola tricolor arvensis), the 

 little skull-cap (Scutellaria parvula), mouse-tail (Myosurus mini- 

 mus); and a little evening primrose of some importance, because 

 not reported heretofore, I think, from either Alabama or Mississippi 

 — Mnothera linifolia. Thickets in these fields, as everywhere, 



