22 POPULAR GEOGRAPHY OF PLANTS. 



he must supply the defect of his feet by the cunning of his 

 head. He accordingly climbs into the trees, and having 

 hidden himself, he watches his opportunity, till some un- 

 fortunate victim passes below ; he then darts down like an 

 arrow upon it, and fixes so firmly on its body with his teeth 

 and claws, that the animal tries in vain to get rid of him by 

 rubbing against the trees ; and he continues to gnaw the 

 flesh and suck the blood till his wretched prey falls down 

 and at last expires, after which he devours it at his ease. 



Having told over the short catalogue of trees, let us next 

 see of what the brushwood consists; and it must be re- 

 membered, that in acquainting ourselves with the plants of 

 this zone in the Old World, we learn at the same time what 

 they are in America ; for there is, we are told, " an extra- 

 ordinary accordance" between them. The brushwood is 

 chiefly composed of that particularly handsome spreading 

 shrub, the Juniper (Tunipems) ; of the Mountain Bramble 

 (JRubns Chamamorus) ; Dwarf Cornel (Cornus Suecica), 

 which has very small dark-purple flowers, growing in an 

 umbel ; of a plant called Dlapensia Lapponica, the stamens 

 of which look like petals with the anthers fixed on the top ; 

 and of Azalea procumbens. They are all very short, as 

 might be expected, and may all be found on heathy pas- 



