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  • NATURE MAGAZINE FOR MAY I 93 I 295 The coastal region presents an almost uninterrupted evergreen covering; between Beaufort and the Dismal Swamp grows a variety of broad-leaved evergreen trees and shrubs scarcely equalled anywhere in America in this latitude. The sabal palmetto covers the rolling dunes of the coastal islands of the southern state and is equalled in charm only by verdant forests farther inland. Farther north, the tall variety disappears, but the dwarf form persists and extends inland over the littoral half of the coastal plain. Sud- denly, on Smith Is- ^X^l land, North Carolina, off the mouth of Cape Fear River, the sub-tropical flora reappears and pal- mettoes as tall as in Florida stand sentinel along the beaches. No wonder the Indians used to say that Smith Island was a part of the Everglade State broken off and floated up to North _ ,S WHO WOULD EXPECT A CACTUS Carolina. „ . ... Yet prickly Smith Island g marks the northern limit not only of the palmetto, but of the great Magnolia grandiflora, the most distinguished and magnificent broad-leaved evergreen in the temperate world. North of Charleston, it inhabits the coastal swamps in a local and scattered way, but on the highway between Charleston and Savannah, it comes into its full glory. Towering to 100 feet in height, it represents in spectacular manner that part of America which is remote and withdrawn from our turbulent centers, but which is as truly existent today in its poetry and romance as it was before the Civil War. Along the dunes and in the depressions back of them are dense and solid brakes of yaupon, with a surface as firm and continuous because of the wind- shearing power as those of the matted beds of spruce on Mt. Katahdin over TO FLOWER HERE? . . , „ _. . , ., x , which Thoreau strug- pear, Opuntia, may be frequently tound ° rowing with young pine on the sand hills gled. The yaupon WHEN THE RHODODENDRON CLOTHES THE HILLSIDES ASHEVILLE PHOTO CO. These brilliant blooms are the bridal garments of the springtime when it is wooed and won by the rugged peaks
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