IN FLORIDA 81 
It came down to the low land near an artificial pool and up by 
another. So thick was the undergrowth in many places that I 
could not crawl through it and I had difficulty, first in locating 
the interesting things and afterwards in finding them. At one 
place not far from a large palmetto I made a turn in the walk, - 
then I trimmed out the vegetation between the angle and the 
tree, and placed a rustic seat there so that one could sit and gaze 
at the glorious head of foliage. 
Here and there along the walk and in secluded nooks I have 
planted shade-loving palms and’ other plants. A number of 
trees and shrubs belonging in the lower part of the state but which 
do not grow wild in this hammock have been introduced and 
established as I fear that they may soon be exterminated else- 
where. Many of the larger trees, especially the live oaks, are 
loaded with wild epiphytes, Tillandsias, Peperomias, Orchids and 
various ferns almost to the breaking point and among these I 
have planted numbers of exotic species which are generally doing 
well and becoming a part of the general air garden. Thecommon 
sword or Boston fern (Nephrolepis exaltata), which is found grow- 
ing all over the warmer parts of the world, has made itself com- 
pletely at home here and in places is carpeting the ground. It 
has established itself in the tops of the palmettos, growing among 
the decaying leaf stalks. A nearly related species which is native 
elsewhere in this region is working in on rotting logs in the lower 
hammock. Phlebodium aureum, a strong-growing fern, lives 
along with the sword fern and the lovely grass fern also hangs 
down from the tops of the palmettos. The creeping Polypodium 
(P. polypodioides) covers the trunks and branches of the live 
oaks, drying up during dry weather until the fronds sometimes 
become so crisp that they break off, but turning green and com- 
mencing growth at once when rains come. Campyloneuron 
phylliditis, without any common name, grows on decaying logs 
and has long, strap-shaped, elegant fronds. I have brought in 
from hammocks elsewhere the beautiful Asplenium serratum, 
which somewhat resembles the foregoing, and established it in 
damp places. Here and there I have put sword ferns and Phle- 
bodiums on the cabbage palmettos just at the base of the crown 
