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Moreover, such blow-outs uncover whatever the advancing 

 dune buried. Under such conditions cottonwoods show their 

 resiliency by sending out leafy shoots on old buried trunks that 



Figs. 139-144: Fig. 139. — Hcpatica, Hcpatica triloba; Fig. 140. — May apple, 

 Podophyllum pdtatuni; Fig. 141. — Wild geranium, Geranium macidatum; Fig. 

 i42.-«-Canada violet, Viola canadensis; Fig. 143. — Long-spur violet, V. rostrata; 

 Fig. 144. — Rattlesnake root, Prenanthes alba. 



bear numerous roots. The buried pines, killed completely by 

 their burial, stand out as giant skeletons, ghosts of their former 

 selves. Such resurrections are no uncommon sight in these 

 forest graveyards. Sometimes the fall of a great tree on one 



