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the cypress-vine grows on the rocky hills, and two vines related 
to our trumpet creeper, one with bright yellow, the other with 
white flowers, are abundant. Proustia Krugiana, an elongated 
climber of the thistle family with yellow flowers, exists only in 
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From Coamo Springs several excursions were made to the 
mountains, three days being a to studi ies “ot 106 sohabae 
slopes and stream-valleys of the Tor 
of 2000 to 3000 feet, reached by ae car on the new and 
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the much heavier rainfall is indicated by the changed character 
of the vegetation, and within much less than a mile the change 
