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‘have a peculiar flora and one quite interesting. These are locally 
known as ‘“‘bayheads,” so called, I presume, from the large number 
of bay trees, Magnolia Virginiana, that occur in them. The shrubs 
most prominent are fiers mitida and Leucothoe racemosa. 
Gordonia Lasianthus, with its large white showy flowers, occurs in 
quantity along the margins. It ranges in height from ten to thirty 
feet, and when in full bloom isa very pretty sight. The plant 
most common, and which attracts the eye above all others, is the 
ever prevailing Swlax laurifolia. It climbs and clambers over all 
the shrub; and bushes, and makes the “ bayheads” almost im- 
penetrable. Here and there open places will be found where 
sphagnum grows in quantity, and in such spots one is almost 
sure to find Utricularia fibrosa, with its large showy yellow flowers. 
And in the very wet places Peltandra sagittacfolia makes itself 
conspicuous by its showy ivory-white spathes. Amdropogon 
brachystachys occurs in the vicinity of “‘ bayheads” and I found it 
no where else. 
The soil of all the above, excepting the “ bayheads,” is pure 
sand, overlying a stratum of clay, the depth of sand varying from 
a few feet in the low pine land to as much as fifty feet in the high 
pine land. In places the clay comes to the top, and the character 
of the vegetation entirely changes. This forms what is locally 
known as ‘hammock land.” It isa heavy clay soil, and is gen- 
erally subjected to continuous inundation during the rainy season, 
which lasts from about June to September. Quercus virens, the 
live oak, is the principal tree, and often attains a great height. The 
most conspicuous object to the eye of a northerner is certainly the 
Cabbage Palmetto, Sabal Palmetto. It rises toa height of 50 to 75 
feet, overtopping all the other vegetation. These trees are very 
plentiful and can be found in all stages of growth, from the young 
plant only a few feet high to the tall ones just alluded to. Until 
they attain a considerable size they retain the bases of the petioles 
of the old leaves. This gives the young palms a different appear- 
ance from the one they assume later when they shed these, expos- 
ing the slim symmetrical trunk to view. So unlike do they seem 
that at first sight it is hardly possible to believe that they can be 
the same in different stages of growth. In some sections the 
Golden Fern, Polypodium aureum, as well as the Old Man’s Beard, 
