38 BROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN MEMOIRS 



fact that in the heart of some of the largest of these wooded kettleholes 

 there is no ground vegetation at all. This lack of herbs and their flowers 

 merely accentuates the deep gloom of these dense stunted little forests. 

 In the center of them one finds only the heavy canopy of foliage just over- 

 head, and the dank carpet of dead leaves under foot. The accompanying 



Figure i i. Sharp contact between edge of wooded kettlehole and open Downs. The 

 flower on che Downs is the beautiful little purple-flowered gerardia {Agalinis acuta). 



photograph (Fig. 12) gives some idea of the tangle of shrubs and trees in 

 one of the wooded kettleholes viewed from the inside. 

 Shrubs 



Amelanchier intermedia (bush form) 



Aronia atropurpurea 



Clethra alnifolia 



