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A NATURAL AMBUSCADE 



From such beautiful coverts — perhaps from this very spot— commands of the United States Army fought the 

 Indians during the Seminole wars. A riotous growth of shrubs whose stems are intertwined with woody vines 

 form an almost impenetrable thicket extending back to a wood of river cypress in the lower part of the slough. 

 The hammock floor is a mass of ferns and small herbs ; Boston and sword ferns in particular are prevalent. There 

 are at least fifty other kinds of ferns— many of them epiphytic — which display the greatest possible variety in 

 structure and contour 

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