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Jounson City ro St, Louis. 
Quercus alba, the White Oak, is a very common tree about Johnson 
City, and attains a large size. The Hemlocks have been mostly 
cut down both for their timber and for the bark which is in "e 
demand for tanning purposes. n Watausee Park, a piece of 
round reserved as a park for Johnson City, 1 ‘noticed some 
occurred in large numbers, alsc the iai or e PAn ong (Pl 
e ba o 
Willow, Black Walnut, Sugatbeer yo Seea (Celtis occidentalis) 
were clothed to their very tops in z deis of Virginian Creeper, 
Aristolochia, &c., and the long pendent ene Eke branches gave quite a 
tropical aspect to the scene. The large red pods of the Honey Locust 
(Gleditschia wiciehnthos) were iil conspieuous and easily 
recognised in the mass of greenery. Both apples and peaches were 
argely grown about here, and in the gardens near houses fine plants of 
Hibiscus syriacus, and here and there Lagerstrimia indica. 
About Bridgport, in Alabama, the Trumpet-creeper (Tecoma 
radicans) was finely in flower on the railway banks, and high up 5 
trees bordering the Railway was Bignonia capreolata also in flow 
The Willow Oak ( Quercus Phellos), the Post Oak (Q. obtusiloba), the. 
Black Jack (Q. "teen - Sie MORE (Diospyrus virginica) were 
conspicuous in the ne rough which the railway 
Belamcanda chinensis, or as pAr more frequently called Pardanthus 
pe the deciduous trees, in more or | py 
ts, the Red Cedar (Juniperus virginiana) of considerable size was 
quent. Close bere too first Co fields were noti 
beautiful leguminous plant was growing in masses on the — banks ; 
this was probably C. occidentalis, a tropical American species 
naturalised in the Southern States. Near Larkinsville a weed E 
Fig (Opuntia, probably O. vulgaris) was growing amongst ro 
immense cymes of Sambucus canadensis were noticed along the uit 
banks every where. 
Leaving Cairo for Du Quoin, in addition to nearly all the trees, &c., 
above mentioned, I noticed masses of Aralia spinosa in flower along the 
railway, and gorgeous breaks of colour furnished by masses of Phlox 
paniculata—the parent of so many of our popular garden Phloxes, and 
"Rudbechia hirta ; the flowers of the former were borne in large 
panicles, and were uen purple in colour, the flower-heads of the latter 
were orange yellow y florets) and black purple (disk). One of our 
commonest native S (Verbascum Thapsus), introduced into the 
New World, was abundant here. I had never missed a day without 
showed above the dwarfer ring of the railway Ganka: its tall stems 
terminated by racemed panicles of white flowers. In many parts of the 
country the only bits of undisturbed prairie ground are the strips 
desires to M an idea of what the aboriginal prairie flora was like in 
these region 
