Show PLANTS THAT HAVE shrubs of southern mountains atiat go for no known reason in the southern mountains certain flowers have been lost tor nearly a century and rediscovered by chance in a different locality thriving and abundant no one knows the cause ol 01 their disappearance by what means they were removed or why they prefer their new habitat one curious feature Is that these vanished flowers or shrubs are not as a rule insignificant plants that one might overlook on the contrary the beautiful variety of dumach sumach named after michaux a french botanist which was lost so many ears ago and has only recently been found again bore great panicles of bramy blossoms first and later on thick aclus clus of velvety and crimson fruit its leaves also turned a rich crim eon in autumn so that its seemed to flame and glow on the mountain sides another lost plant also a shrub the elli ottia was a striking beauty it belonged to the heath family and had long spikes of white blossoms each blossom shaped like a st andrew s cross in vivid contrast with its lus arous trous green foliage it has now van as completely as it it had never existed some of the plants were fortunately collected in 1878 by a gentleman near augusta ga so that it has disappear ed in less than a quarter of a cen tury no reason is known tor this loss either to botanists or the people among whom it once bloomed new york herald |