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exceptions already specially noted, we may say that 

 almost every characteristic form in the vegetation of 

 the Atlantic States is wanting in California, and the 

 characteristic plants and trees of California are want- 

 ing here. 



California has no magnolia nor tulip trees, nor star- 

 anise tree ; no so-called papaw (Asimina) ; no barberry 

 of the common single-leaved sort ; no Podophyllum or 

 other of the peculiar associated genera ; no nelumbo 

 nor white water-lily ; no prickly ash nor sumach ; no 

 loblolly-bay nor Stuartia ; no basswood nor linden- 

 trees ; neither locust, honey-locust, coffee-trees (Gym- 

 nocladus) nor yellow-wood (Cladrastis) ; nothing an- 

 swering to Hydrangea or witch-hazel, to gum-trees 

 (Nyssa and Liquidambar), Viburnum or Diervilla ; it 

 has few asters and golden-rods ; no lobelias ; no huckle- 

 berries and hardly any blueberries ; no Epigsea, charm 

 of our earliest Eastern spring, tempering an icy April 

 wind with a delicious wild fragrance ; no Kalmia nor 

 Clethra, nor holly, nor persimmon ; no catalpa-tree, nor 

 trumpet-creeper (Tecoma) ; nothing answering to sas- 

 safras, nor to benzoin-tree, nor to hickory; neither 

 mulberry nor elm ; no beech, true chestnut, hornbeam, 

 nor ironwood, nor a proper birch-tree ; and the enu- 

 meration might be continued very much further by 

 naming herbaceous plants and others familiar only'to 

 botanists. 



In their place California is filled with plants of 

 other types trees, shrubs, and herbs, of which I will 

 only remark that they are, with one or two exceptions, 

 as different from the plants of the Eastern Asiatic 

 region with which we are concerned (Japan, China, and 



