446 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [JUNE 
tufts of Usnea barbata, simulating 7il/andsia usneoides, hang from 
the trees, and if the beholder is of an imaginative disposition, 
the weird scene becomes for him a recess of some sub-tropical 
swamp. 
In y the water is less in evidence, and sometimes disappears 
from the surface for many weeks during the summer. The trees 
average slightly larger. In depressions between their stools 
Sphagnum is growing; on the stools themselves, thick cushions 
of other mosses. Shrubs are nearly absent, the lower portions of 
the trees’ trunks are branchless, and one looks through sombre 
forest aisles, darker and more still than those of a pine forest. 
No pool is found at its center; matters have gone farther here, 
and the encroaching vegetation has covered the one time pond 
completely over. 2 
‘In swamp 2 water is ordinarily absent, and the ground is firm 
enough that one may walk where he will. The trees are notice- 
ee Bay larger, some reaching a diameter of 45°. Osmunda cin- 
= @ grows in abundance. Young cedar trees are scarcely 
id o one » realizes that he  beholds the penultimate term of 
getetesseal: ete ot the deposit : 
hing os the margin, an island forms in the 
ves ‘jarrow belt of cre water about the edge oe 
