Statistics of the Flora of the Northern States. 403 
intervales, the Button-wood or Platanus on the banks of rivers 
and streams, the Sugar Maple, the various Hickoriés, the Black 
Walnut, and several Oaks, the White and the Paper Birch, con- 
spicuous from the ghastly white bark of their trunks, as well as 
by their light and handsome foliage, the Sassafras, the Cucum- 
ber-tree, the Tulip-tree, the Honey Locust with its remarkably 
light and feathery foliage, and the Gymnocladus or Kentucky 
Coffee-tree, with its thick and stout branchlets, and its remarka- 
bly decompound foliage, rendered the more striking in aspect 
by the oblique or almost vertical position which the leaflets gen- 
Considering our great variety of trees and shrubs, there is @ 
Tfemarkable absence of broad-leaved evergreens. The American 
Holly is our only tree of the sort of considerable size, and that 
18not acommon'one. Of large shrubs or small trees, Rhododen- 
amum and Kalmia latifolia—our “ Laurels,”—are our 
Principal and truly characteristic evergreens, as they are among 
Fost social of our woody Sand 
the most common species which strike the eye over the whole 
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‘ ee bifolia, Erythronium ea aired cot Ovularia sessilifolia, 
a little later, Geranium maculatum. : - 
: ich int lants take in our flora, with some 
kik € part which introduced plants take 1 ie 
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