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flowers of the 3^ellow jes^saniiiie {Gelsemiuia sempervirens)^ these fol- 

 lowed by the white bloom of the Cherokee rose. 



The frequent vines of the l)ullace grape, Brunnichia, Cissus, and Smi- 

 lax, which entwine bushes and trees, add to the intricacy of the maze 

 of shrubbery on the low hammocks. In their deepest recesses Ejn- 

 dendrum conopseunh linds its home upon the limbs of old magnolias and 

 hoary live oaks, being the only epiphytic orchid in the southeastern 

 States outside of the narrow belt of the Antillean flora, skirting the 

 coast of southern Florida and of the adjacent islands, the so-called 

 Keys. Apteria setacea is strictly confined to the rich mold of the ham- 

 mocks. This leafless saprophyte, of a pale bluish color, grows in dense 

 clusters, its numerous contorted roots deeply buried in the ground. 

 It is also not rarely foiuid in Florida and southeastern Georgia. On 

 the shady borders of the hammock are found, flowering early in the 

 spring, NeuiophiJa inicroad yx and Amruiii arlfolium^ followed l)y the 

 Atamasco lily {Atamosco {Zej^hyrantJiex) atamasco) and hoary lupine 

 {Lupinus villosti-s), and in the summer months by the following: 



Rhexia mariana.^ Panicum proUfei'um inflatum. 



Rhexia lanceolata. Panicum rostratum} 



Agrimonia incisa. Opl'is'menus hirtellus. 



Amorpha glabra. Eragrostis glomeraia. 



Sanicula canadensis.^ Carex hirsuta.^ 



Paspalum michauxianum. Car ex caroliniana.^ 



Paspalum ciliatifolium.^ Carex dehilis prolixa. 



Paspalum praecox. Mellca mutica.^ 



Panicum viscidum.^ Panicum verrucosuvi.^ 



Panicum gihhum. Arundinaria iecfa.^ 

 Panicum scabriusculurn. 



We have here a mingling of mesophile and paludial t^^pes, all char- 

 acteristic of the hammocks, the last three having also a wider range. 

 Ferns are abundant in the damp shade. Dryoptei'ls patens, a cosmo- 

 politan species of suljtropical and tropical regions, is confined in our 

 territory almost exclusively to the hanmiocks. It is accompanied by 

 the more frequent Dryopferls acrosticholdes, Pterls aquilina (form near 

 to caudata), AspyJeniuin. j)! atyneui'on, W(H)dumrd!a((ngn.stlf(>l!a, and W. 

 virgmica,' the last in more moist situations. Lycopodiuiii eern mini is 

 remarkable as one of the few types extending from the tropics to the 

 coast of the Louisianian area which appears to be indigenous with us. 

 Where the terrace merges into the flats of the plain, the border of the 

 hammock becoming frequently wet, tall wool grasses {Eriaoithits hreoi- 

 haj'his, E. strictus, E. mccJi((roides), coarse l)eard grass {Andnpocion 

 glomeratuH), and royal fern ( Osniunda regalix) form conspicuous features 

 in the aspect of the vegetation. 



Pine meadoics. — Approaching the seashore the terrace of loamy 

 silt passes imperceptibly into the flats of the purely siliceous coast 

 sands, through which the sluggish water courses, subject to the ebb 



^ Found also in the Carolinian area. 



