[5] The forests of Mississippi consist of oak, ash, maple, hickory,
sweet gum, cypress, (in the bottoms) yellow poplar, holly, black and
white flowering locusts, pecan, and pine on the ridges, with a countless
variety of underwood, ivy, grape vines, (vitis silvestris) papaw,
spice-wood, and innumerable creepers whose flexile tendrils twine around
every tree.