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Sequoia, the latter in honour of a Cherokee 

 who invented an alphabet and taught it to his 

 people. Popularly, many words are happily 

 retained, as catawba, and scuppernong for 

 certain grapes, and, used as adjectives, we 

 find the Chickasaw plum, the Atamasco lily, 

 the Missouri currant and aster, the Osage 

 orange, the Seneca snake-root, and so on. 

 Over our heads as we walk in the budding 

 woods the soft fringes of the tamarisk are 

 trembling, and the tupelo is unfurling its flat 

 fans ; under our feet the aromatic, gummy 

 leaf scales of the tackemehack are fallen. 

 The silky dogwood is the kinnikinnick, and the 

 movre wood of the main coasts, and the 

 willow herb of those hideous charred deserts 

 which follow the footsteps of the murderers 

 of our primeval forests, share the odd word 

 wykopy. 



The white fruits black-eyed, with a certain 

 jewel-like quality of the cohosh shine above the 

 mossy banks on which the fragrant pipsissiwa 

 is blooming. The yellow puccoon or alkanet is 

 abloom on the prairies and when fall comes 

 the wood's edge will blaze out with the scarlet 

 wahoo or Indian arrowwood. From the 



