98 NOTES AND COMMENT 



In the area of Caribbean pine in western Cuba I have not seen any- 

 thing quite similar to a Florida hammock, the hardwood species there 

 growing for the most part along water courses, but the land is mostly 

 considerably more elevated than that of South Florida. However, 

 the associations are nearly repeated on the larger Bahamian islands 

 inhabited by the pine, where the land is often of considerable elevation, 

 though the sharp demarcation we see in south Florida is not always 

 so evident; in the Bahamas, the hammocks are called "coppets" or 

 "coppices" and they contain many of the Florida hammock species with 

 many others. The mangrove-prairie association is there quite paralleled 

 by regions known as "swash." — N. L. Britton. 



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