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berries ; and closely interwoyen branch- 

 lets stuck about with thorns. The red- 

 bud, which I have already mentioned, 

 holds its little bunches of flowers so 

 lightly that they look as if they had 

 been carried there by the wind and had 

 caught along the twigs and branches. 

 Very different from these, yet no less 

 interesting in its way, is the staghom 

 sumach, which is of erratic growth 

 and bears stately pyramids of velvety 

 flowers of a dark crimson-maroon. 

 There is a fine contrast, too, where the 

 serviceberry, with early dehcate white 

 blossoms, blooms among the evergreens 

 and the opening leaves of spring. 



Another word about the West. The 

 undergrowth of the northerly portion 

 of the Pacific coast region has al- 

 ready been referred to; but there ex- 



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