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(sometimes white) flowers give midsummer color to the hills, which are 

 often splashed at the same time with scattered patches of the white-flowered 

 Sericocarpus asteroides. A little later untold millions of Agalinis oc«ta, with 

 small purple flowers, give a new note of color, followed by the violet- colored 

 or often paler, lonachs linariifoliiis , with its aster-like ray flowers. Pages 

 of description could be written of this ever changing panorama of flowers 

 over the Downs, to the possible exclusion of a detailed account of the 

 composition of this vegetation. 



Considering first the herbs, which make up nearly all the vegetative 

 covering of the Downs, it appears possible to separate them into groups as 

 to their frequency of occurrence. In the following list the dominant 

 species comes first, followed in order of frequency, by those which, while 

 still very common, are subsidiary: 



Schizachyrium scoparium 



Juncus Greenei 



Deschampsia flexuosa 



Sorofiastrum nutans 



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