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Lespedeza hirta Dry woods 



Aureolaria Pedicidaria Dry woods 



Eupatorium sessilifolium Dry or rich woods 



Juncoides campestre Rich woods 



Meibomia grandiflora Rich woods 



Carex vestita Dry woods 



Quite a number of interesting conclusions could be drawn from 

 this list by an enterprising reader, but only some based on the 

 figures for relative abundance (which are not published for 

 reasons previously given) will be mentioned here. It seems that 

 not over i per cent of the trees are evergreen, about 41 per cent 

 of the shrubs belong to the Ericaceae and allied families (Cle- 

 thraceae and Vacciniaceae) , and about 8 per cent of the herbs are 

 leguminous plants. (The last figure, however, would be about 

 doubled if the salt marshes were excluded, for there are no 

 Leguminosae in them.) 



This vegetation may now be compared, by means of data 

 gathered in the same manner but not yet published, with that of 

 two adjacent regions, namely, the glaciated portion of Queens 

 County on the north, where the soils are more clayey and evi- 

 dently richer, and swamps are scarcer, and the unglaciated por- 

 tion of Nassau County on the east, where the soils are a little 

 more sandy and evidently somewhat poorer on the average. The 

 plants will be listed in the same order that they appear above, 

 and where there is only one species of a genus listed the specific 

 name is omitted to save space. 



It is reasonably certain that the following are relatively more 

 abundant in the area under consideration than in northern 

 Queens County: — Trees: Quercus alba, Hicoria alba, Acer riibrum, 

 Quercus coccinea, Q. montana. Small trees: Betula, Populus. 

 Vines: Vitis, Smilax, Rubus hispidus, Lonicera. Shrubs: 

 Vaccinium vacillans, Clethra, Gaylussacia baccata, Myrica, Iva, 

 Rhus Vernix, Gaylussacia frondosa. Herbs (excluding salt 

 marsh species) : Ammophila, Carex pennsylvanica, Panicum dicho- 

 tomum, Solidago bicolor, Baptisia, Meibomia nudiflora, Spathyema, 

 Fragaria, Angelica. ■Helianthus, Aralia, Unifolium, Osmunda,Aure- 



