Naushon Island, Mass.
1900
May 20, 21
(No 3)
 of the soil which is nearly everywhere thin & sandy.
The prevailing kinds of trees are beeches and oaks of
various species among which I recognised only the
white, red and scarlet (the leaves were not sufficiently
large to be available for nice discriminations). There
were also a good many hop hornbeams and in
the swamps red maples and tupelos. I saw specimens
of the last-named species which were fully two feet
in diameter & sixty or seventy feet high. Among the
smaller trees the holly, flowering dog-wood, and the
smooth-leaved form of the shad bush were not
uncommon. I saw no chestnuts and the only pines
found on the island are a few hundred Pinus rigida
which Mr. John Forbes planted on the Desert forty or
more years ago. The red cedar is represented by a 
few scattered specimens and the white cedar is said
to occur in some of the swamps, both species 
being indigenous.
Prevailing kids of
trees in
Naushon
woods.
  The wooded swamps, unlike the upland forests, are
so choked with undergrowth and overrun with cat brier
as to be practically impenetrable except by the Deer
who traverse them freely at all times and find a
more or less safe shelter in them during the autumn
hunts. Why they do not clip off the branches & young
shoots in these swamps is a mystery. 
Wooded
swamps.
  Throughout both upland and swampy woods but
especially in the latter the trees are draped in
Usnea which gives them a weird and ancient appearance.
Usnea
  There are very many dead and hollow trees
everywhere and there should be many woodpeckers but
I saw only Flickers & Downies & those not in unusual numbers.
Dead &
hollow trees
abound.
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