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THE PLANT LIFE OF MABYLAHD 



trees, like the River Birch, Honey Locust, [Mulberry and Box 

 Elder. On the upper and drier parts of the Ridge, Kalmia, 

 Juniperus, Comus and Cercis are frequent, and Viburnum pruni- 

 folium is also to be found. Of the herbaceous vegetation the fol- 

 lowing species were found to be the chief forms present : 



Eupatorium coelestinum 

 Stylosa utiles b i flora 

 Cimicifuga racemosa 

 Euphorbia corollata 

 Solarium nigrum. 

 Saponaria officinalis 

 Acalyplia virginica 

 Sericocarpus asieroidcs 

 Viola pedata 

 ( 'himaphila maculata 

 Ilcpatica hepatica 

 Cassia nictitans 

 Phytolacca decandra 

 Silene stellata 

 Menispermum can a dense 

 Hystrix hystrix 

 Lobelia inflafa 

 Houstonia purpurea 

 Baptisia tinctoria 

 Podophyllum peltaium 

 Cypripcdium acaule. 



The species of ferns which were noted were the following: 



Adiantum pedatum 

 Asplenium trichomanes 

 Pellaea atropurpurea 

 Woodsia obtusa 

 Asplenium plat y neuron 

 Asplenium ruta-muraria 

 Poly podium vulgare 

 Phegopteris phegopieris 

 Dryopteris marginalis 

 Diclcsonia punctilobula. 



