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war dia Virginica, Solid ago sempervirens, and Typha angtistifolia. 



Practically the only trees are the Palmetto and the Bermudian cedar, 



the latter 20 to 50 feet high, and often 1 or 2 feet thick, though 



some old shells are 5 feet. The oleander is naturalized and in 



some quarters covered the whole landscape with bloom. Because 



of the practical absence of frost, tropical trees are acclimated with 



surprising success. The coffee tree has run wild in the sinkholes. 



About twenty-five ferns were known, and eight Musci and six 



Hepaticae had been already observed. There is nowhere any brook 



and only one moss and one hepatic are common ; the others are in 



the Devonshire marsh and the sinkholes of the 



These are open caves 30 or 40 feet deep, with more moisture and 



shade and less wind, and therefore showing quite a different flora. 



There Dr. Howe discovered as many as fifteen Hepaticae. He also 



greatly increased the number of the marine algae beyond the 132 



of the Challenger report. The marine flora seems at first scanty 



on account of the absence of Fucics and Ascophyllum, but proves 



to be varied and interesting. It is practically that of southern 



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River basin which had perhaps never been visited by a botanist 

 before. There was frost nearly every night. The tangled wild 

 wood could not be penetrated more than four miles a day, except 

 as it is entered by meadows stretching back from the lake. Beaver 

 dams a quarter mile long cross these meadows and convert the 

 upper portions into sedgy marshes. A colony of beavers was 

 active with 400 yards of his camp. Great stretches of Drosera 

 carpet the marshes. Interesting plants were collected to 325 

 numbers. 



Professor Lloyd reported upon work on the Gulf coast begun 

 after the close of his classes at the Columbia University summer 

 school. Professor Lloyd and Professor Tracy procured a barge 

 at Biloxi, Miss., by which they explored the flora of the islands of 

 the Mississippi Sound, and of the delta proper. It was necessary 

 to sail for miles in two feet of water, and occasionally to jump out 

 and push. Always a furrow of mud followed in their wake. The 

 islands bear a pine-barren and a sand-dune flora, with masses of 

 Pinguicula and Drosera. The island surfaces are flat and form 



