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liOTANICAL SUKVEY OF DISMAL SWAMP KK(UoN. 



Barringtonia formation of the East Indian strand), 1 or trail along the 

 jyround, finding no support. These trailing si cms are sometimes 

 very long, e. g., Teeoma rad leans, 3{ meters (12 feet), and Vitis 

 rotundifolia, 9 meters (30 feet). These species occur also in the 

 inland forests, where they usually climb high and their si ems attain 



Flo. (Hi. —Fin an latilti aim mtr t ho .sand dunes near < )rcanviow, Va. 



a considerable thickness, while among the dunes they are ordinarily 

 of small diameter. .Most abundant) art 1 two species of grape — the 



'This formation is described as follows by Schimper dndoinalayischo Strand- 

 flora, p. 08): 



"Directly behind tho strip of sand, where decaying algae and numberless shells 

 and pieces of coral indicate the zone of tidal action, rises a wall of foliage com- 

 posed of various trees and shrubs and rendered almost impenetrable by Casaytha 

 filiformia, Quilandhia bonducella, species of Canavalia, and other slender climbs 

 ing plants. This constitutes the outer limit of a narrow forest and shrub forma- 

 tion, stretching like a hem along the coast, which I shall call the Barringtonia 

 forination. after a genus of Myrtaceae, which is represented there by several 

 arborescent species." 



