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tention to the distribution of a few kinds which are 

 dominant and characteristic. Of species found in 

 the United States (east of the Rocky Mountains), 

 there are 



And as to the first and most important group of 

 the list, Dr. Curtis has called attention to the very 

 striking fact that there are more species of oaks in 

 this State " than in all of the States north of us, and 

 only one less than in all the Southern States, east of 

 the Mississippi." 



It will be observed that the kinds of trees which 

 characterize this flora include chiefly such as are most 

 valuable in the arts. The long-leaf pine alone is the 

 basis of industries whose annual products in this 

 State are not less than 83,000,000. The juniper and 

 cypress have long been a source of large revenues to 

 the whole eastern region. And it is worthy of men- 

 tion in this connection, that, besides the present crop 

 of trees, there are over large areas of the swamp 

 lands several successive generations of buried forests, 



