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The original prairie vegetation is now nearly all replaced by 

 fields and pastures. In St. Landry Parish sometimes as many as 

 fifty farm-houses can be seen at once, between stations, each with 

 a few trees around it. and most of them with " French "' chimneys 

 of sticks and mud. Water is usually obtained from cisterns, as 

 in the delta. Rice, corn and cotton are the leading crops, in 

 order of acreage. The commonest native and naturalized plants 

 seem to be as follows : 



Liquidamhar Styraciflua 

 PijiHS Tacda 

 Quercus stcllata 

 Pinus palustris 

 Quercus Pliellos 



Myrica pumila 

 Cephalanthus occidentalis 



Paspalum Vaseyanmn 

 Pan icii m Jieiuifomon 

 Helenium tenuifoliuin 

 Eryngimn yuccifoliu m 

 Mesadenia lanceolata 

 Tillandsia usncoides 

 Hibiscus incanus ( ?) 

 Nama ovata ( ?) 



Trees 



Hicoria alba 

 Nyssa sylvatica (?) 

 Quercus falcata 

 Qiuercus Michauxii 

 Taxodium distichum 



Shrubs 



BaccJiaris halimifolia 



Herbs 



Gaura Lindhciincri 

 Baptisia leucopJiaea* 

 Dracopis amplexicaulis ( ?) 

 Croton capitatus 

 Silphium laciniatum 

 Typlia latifolia 

 Baptisia sp. 

 Scsbania macrocarpa ( ?) 



The trees are mostly along streams, as above stated, and Myrica 

 pumila occurs near the pine forests, especially on mounds, where 

 it can keep its roots reasonably dry. The first and third herbs 

 listed are obnoxious weeds, and the second grows in wet places 



* In Robinson & Fernald's Manual this is treated as synonymous with B. 

 bracteata Ell., a species known only from dry woods in Georgia and Alabama 

 (see Bull. Torrey Club 33: 533. 1906), but the range attributed to it excludes 

 those two states entirely. 



