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POPTTLAE NAME. 
Silk-weed, 
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Sorrel, 
Senna, wild 
Pepper-grass, 
Specularia, 
Violet, 
White water-lily, 
White clover, 
Wild indigo, 
" sensitive plant, 
" parsnip. 
Water plantain, 
Wild senna, 
Vinnella, 
Viburnum, 
Yellow pond-lily, 
Vervain, 
Trailing arbutus, 
Bear's-foot, 
SCIENTiriO NAMB. 
Asclepias purpurascens. 
" variegata. 
Oxalis stricta. 
Cassia Marylandica. 
Lepidium campestre. 
Specularia perfoliata. 
Viola rotundifolia. 
Nymphsea odorata. 
TrifoliuTQ repens. 
Baptisia tinctoria. 
Cassia nictitans. 
Pastinaca sativa. 
Alisma plantago. 
Cassia Marylandica. 
Cacalia suaveolens. 
Verbena spuria. 
Kuphar advena. 
Verbena spuria. 
Epigsea repens. 
Helleborus foetidus. 
Remarks. — Of our timljer and timber trees much of 
interest nfight be said, did our space admit of it. 
The cypress, for many purposes of building, stands un- 
rivalled. I have no means of estimating the value of the 
trade in this timber, but it is immense. 
There is scarcely a town or village on the Mississippi 
or its tributaries, within the limits of the State, in which 
there is not one or more steam-mills busily employed in 
sawing this timber. Add to these the numerous mills 
similarly employed on plantations, and take into view the 
logs rafted to New Orleans, and along the river coast be- 
low our borders, and it will be perceived that the annual 
consumption of this valuable timber, the growth of our 
swamps, is enormous. 
