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shrubbery, .excellent specimens of the smooth sumac. 

 This sumac has leaves quite similar to those of the 

 staghorn sumac, but if you look at its branches you 

 will see that they are very smooth and have none of 

 that woolly, fuzzy pubescence which is the character- 

 istic mark of the staghorn. Indeed, it is this similarity 

 of aspect of its branches (when stripped of leaves) 

 to the young horns of a stag that has given it its 

 name. 



Follow this frst clump right around its margin, 

 and you pass, beyond the smooth sumac, smooth 

 sumac again, then ninebark again, then common privet 

 then back to Indian currant. 



Now let us continue along the path by Long 

 Meadow. We pass another circular clump of shrub- 

 bery on our right. This is smooth sumac and so is 

 the next clump. Then we come to two clumps, mostly 

 ninebark, and another cluster of bushes in the neck 

 of the bank where the Walk and Bridle Path come 

 close together. This is the beautiful Rhus copallina 

 or dwarf mountain sumac, which is so handsome in 

 early autumn. You can tell it at once by the wings 

 on its leaf steam, between each pair of leaflets. 



If when you were on the Bridle Path a moment 

 ago you had not turned in by the smooth sumac but 

 had kept on, you would have passed, on the right, 

 Californian privet, Austrian pine, two handsome white 

 pines side by side, then common privet, and Austrian 

 pine right back of the lamp-post, where the Bridle 

 Path comes into East Drive. Over to the right of 



