Statistics of the Flora of the Northern States. 401. 
“* Cornacez, I more genus and 3 more species of trees. 
Ericacex, qciett “ a gs s“ “ 
. Oleacer, Q « Mh i (ell, ace Ah a. “ 
Urticacez, Q & a me Fs Ps “ 
. Cupuliferz, Qo « “ “j1 « «“ “ 
‘ Betulacez, 0 (—1) “ “ g & “ see 
Conifer, 3 « e090 “c “ 
4. Our flora, it may be seen, accordingly predominates in its 
Species of Pine, Fir, Oak, Birch, Elm, Ash, arboreous as well as 
shrubby Cornacew, Crategi, and of arboreous Leguminose ; and 
___ its characteristic trees are the Tuxodium, the Overcup, Willow 
and Chestnut-Oaks, the Hickories and Walnuts, the Planer-tree 
and two Sapotacee, which barely reach us from the South, the 
Persimmon, the Gum-trees (both Nyssa and Liguidambar), the 
vommon and Honey Locusts, Cladrasiis, and the Kentucky Coffee- 
tree, the Negundo and three species of Buckeye, the Sumac, the 
Loblolly Bay of our southeastern border, the Papaw-tree, the 
_ Tulip-tree, and our five species of Magnolia. We might haye 
added Zanthoxylum, but no Prickly Ash fairly forms a tree within 
our geographical limits. ; 
- Our flora is equally rich in shrubs, of a great variety of 
families, especially in those which make an undergrowth in for- 
3; and, among them, in Vaccinee, Andromedee and Rhodorea, 
while it has no Arbutee rising above the surface of the ground, 
and no Ericee or Heaths at all. 
_ 6. It is also rich in Composite, especially Helianthoid Compos- 
ue, Kupatorine, Asters, and Solidagoes, in the lat 
numbering any other region; but is poor in Anthemzdee, true 
. 
Senecionee, and in Cynarea, and especially so in Cichoracee. 
It has 
; but this result happens in consequence of our remarkabl 
: f o ser i : 
Comparative poverty in Crucifere, Umbellifere, Labiate, and. Ca- 
"yophyllacee. Other orders in which our flora is much deficient, 
our flora but wanting in that of Europe, and in which character- 
Canina hoe tra ie pistes 9 would still further extend 
