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bamboo-scrub, but this belt is very narrow and speedily gives 

 place to large trees which extend to within five hundred feet of 

 the summit where bamboo-scrub again becomes troublesome. 

 Everywhere above five thousand feet where the woods are thin 

 and sunlight penetrates freely bamboo-scrub is found, rendering 

 travel excessively arduous, and unless a path is cut, impossible. 

 In the dense shade of the forest the Bamboo does not thrive. 



The forest is full of splendid timber and is rich in variety. The 

 Chinese Beech, perhaps, is the commonest tree. This species 

 always has many trunks, and trees sixty to seventy feet high with 

 trunks three to six feet in girth abound. The interesting Tetra- 

 centron sinense is very abundant, and trees sixty to seventy feet by 

 eight to ten feet girth are plentiful. The leafage of this tree is very 

 thin and characteristic. Huge trees of White Birch occur and good- 

 sized trees of several species of Maple are scattered through the 

 forest. Davidia occurs sparingly, and large trees of various cher- 

 ries, bird-cherries, mountain-ash, and wild pears are common. 

 Berchemia flavescens rambles over the tops of the tallest trees ; 

 several species of Rhododendron are met with and one, R. sut- 

 chuenense, forms a tree thirty feet and more tall and five feet in 

 girth. Shrubs in variety abound; in glades Vihurnuvi tomentosum 

 was wreathed in snow-white. In more open places the Musk Rose 

 is rampant and near the summit Rosa sericea abounds. Three 

 kinds of Rhododendron were collected and six in all noted. Maples 

 were very common in numerous variety, but one large tree of Acer 

 griseum, with its chestnut-red bark ex-foliating like a river birch 

 was the gem of all. Various Pomaceae not yet in flower and one 

 or two species of Lauraceae made up a fair percentage of the 

 small trees. Viburnums in variety, Honeysuckles, Diervillas, 

 Deutzias, Philadelphus, and Neillia sinensis were everywhere 

 abundant. In rocky, more open places. Viburnum rhytidophyllum 

 with its long, thick wrinkled leaves looked particularly happy, and 

 in fully exposed places Mains baccata with its wealth of pink 

 flowers was a sight for the gods. On wet, humus-clad rocks, 

 Pleione Ilenryi luxuriates and herbs in endless variety crowd every 

 available spot. A fine torrent collects up the waters of countless 

 small streams, and falls down the narrow ravine often in a series 

 of waterfalls hundreds of feet high, the noise of the falling water 

 alone breaking the silence of the forest depths. 



