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the plant forms which happen to be in their period of flower 
at the time the amphitheater is used. But this may not be great 
if its use is not carried too far. 
II. In the West Wood, the trees are much the same, with 
the beech most abundant then the sugar maple, elms, black 
walnut, and wild cherry making up the most of the remainder. 
Here is noticed, even more than in the North Wood, that it is 
the beech and maple that make up the majority of the young 
Fig. 5. The West Wood 
trees. Thus this wood will continue to be a beech-maple associa- 
tion through the next generation. 
The soil here is much drier, due probably to the southern 
exposure, a more open wood, and the fact that the soil is thinner 
over the underlying strata of rock. 
Owing to the moisture conditions, the ground flora is more 
limited than in the North Wood. Here are found principally 
Sanguinaria canadensis, Podophyllum peltatum, Clatonia vir- 
ginica; various species of Geum, Galium, Desmodim, and Carex; 
