underwood

“The natural underwood has been grubbed up,” Olmsted wrote at the time, “the trees, to a height of 10 to 15 feet, trimmed to bare poles.”

After the next volley some of the men plunged into the underwood, encouraged by the voice of the sergeant shouting: "After him, men, at all costs; he cannot be far off."

In some places the trees grew closely together, with a thick underwood, which shut-in the path on both sides, and through which the road had been partially cleared by the 33d.

For the underwoods were populous with serpents of all kinds, many of which were venomous.

It was a rusty, damp-stained door, once painted green, and masked by trees somewhat higher than the underwood through which they had climbed.