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the topography of the land, and also in the vegetation. Ries 
h th 
wi 
paws (Asimina), with large floppy white flowers, milkweeds 
(Asclepias), with bright-red flowers, prickly-pears (Opuntia), 
with bright yellow flowers, and lupines ae with sky-blue 
flowers suddenly attracted our attention 
At on 
conspired to bring spring to a climax. Herbs and shrubs were in 
bloom everywhere. 
Not fewer than twenty-odd kinds of sei plants could 
be gathered within the area of a square rod, and associated with 
them were about half as many woody plant 
The large-flowered pawpa as ow-pla: the s 
aso 
The many stems of the bushes, with their half-grown leaves, 
were usually a hidden by the long wands of white or creamy- 
white blossom 
e least conspicuous shrub was pygmy hawthorn or white- 
shrub was only about a foot tall, but it was neither in flower nor 
in fruit. 
The woody plants in flower and most in evidence, aside from 
d arry 
light-pink flowers, and fetterbush (Desmothamnus nitidus), often 
half vine-like, with bright-pink urn-shaped flowers. 
Two herbaceous plants, purely American types, growing both 
in the pinelands and in the 
edge of t 
distribution lies far west of the Mississippi Valley. These 
