The Flora of the Prairies

PROBABLY the vegetation of no two adjoining regions, both of which are situated between the same parallels of latitude and at nearly the same height above the sea, presents greater differences than exist between the vegetation of the fertile prairies of the Mississippi Valley and the forest region that extends from their eastern border to the Atlantic coast. To one who has always lived amid the diversified scenery of the Eastern or Middle States, where distant mountains almost everywhere bound the view, and forestcrowned hills and cultivated valleys .so agreeably alternate as to dispel the possibility of monotony, a first view of the primitive prairies,-