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fection — growing in great colonies as large as a room, 

 then, for some inexplicable reason, skipping a place and 

 forming another room — there is but little underbrush 

 and but a scanty growth of a flora rare and peculiar to 

 such spots. Xowhere else do I find Uvularia pcrfoliata, 

 here too is a Cucurbit rarely met with elsewhere, and a 

 pure white Dcsmodium and the carrion flower smilax 

 (Nemexia hcrbacca). Asclcpias varicgata raises its pure 

 white, crimson-hearted pompons, so like wax. out of the 

 very midst of the green beds of Phcgoptcris. Surely 

 we have few flowers more exquisite than this, especially 

 when overtopping the tender green of the broad beech 

 fern. Here too Aristolochia scrpcntaria is everywhere 

 underfoot with its one little pitcher snugly tucked under 

 the leaf mould, often buried in the sand close to the 

 orange yellow roots, and always so strongly aromatic as 

 to be unmistakable. \Yhere the sand is washed to the 

 surface and the leafmould not so deep the partridge 

 berry (Mitchella repcns) trails in profusion and a dwarf 

 species of purple violet carpets the ground in the Spring 

 with its running prostrate stems. The shade loving 

 Elcphantopus (Elephontopus Carolinianus) , shoots up 

 candelabra-like branches from the rosette of broad green 

 leaves. If seen at the hour of the day when its purple 

 lights are expanded, it lends a needed note of color. 

 Where the Phcgopteris reigns, Lcptamnium J 7 irginianum 

 and Ti pular ia unifolia are almost sure to be found by the 

 trained eye, though both are often met with where this 

 fern does not grow. So perfectly do they tone with 

 the brown underfoot, that their presence is apt to be 

 overlooked, unless a gleam of red catches the eye as the 

 glint of the sun rests on the crimson-lined leaf of the 

 Tipularia. 



Another treasure hidden here from the common view 

 — coming to the light only to the most appreciative 

 eye, is a diminutive form of Botrychium Virginianum. 

 Fern authorities insist that a larger form should be found 

 near by and think it may be a depauperate specimen, but 

 the theory does not hold good, for the species would 



