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Show PLANT3 THAT HAVE VANISHED. Shrubs of Southern Mountain! That Go for No Known Reason. In tho southern mountains certain (lowers hnvo been lost for nearly a century und rediscovered by chanoo In a different locality, thriving and abundant. No ono kuowa tho causo of their dlsnppparuni e, by w hat means they were removed, or why they profor their new habitat. Ono curious feature Is that these anl9hcd tlowers or shrubs, arc not as a rule Insignificant plants that one might overlook. On the contrary tho beautiful variety cf sumach named after Mlchnux. a French botanist, which was lost so many years ago and has only recently been found again, bore great panicles of cramy bloisocis first, and later on thick clusters clus-ters of velvety and crimson fruit. Ita leaven also turned a rich crimson crim-son In autumn, so that its seemed to flamo and glow- on the mountain sides. Another lost plant also a shrub, tho elllottla, was a striking beauty It belonged to the heath family and had long spikes of whlto blossoms, each blossom shaped llko a St Andrew's cross, In vlld contrast with Its lustrous lus-trous green foliage. It lias now vanished van-ished as completely as If It had never existed. Sotno of the plants wero fortunately collected In 1878 by a gentleman near Augusta, (n., so that It has disappeared disappear-ed In less than n quarter of a century. cen-tury. No reason Is known for this loss cither to botanists or tho people among whom It one bloomed. New-York New-York Herald. |