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greener kind of poverty grass (Hudsonia 

 ericoides), inviting 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- 

 grant odor a; 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 Poly gala 

 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 



