30 IN THE FLAT-WOODS. 



there one, on my return at noon. In simi- 

 lar places grew a " yellow daisy " (Lepto- 

 poda), a single big head, of a deep color, 

 at the top of a leafless stem. It seemed to 

 be one of the most abundant of Florida 

 spring flowers, but I could not learn that it 

 went by any distinctive vernacular name. 

 Beside the railway track were blue-eyed 

 grass and pipewort, and a dainty blue lobelia 

 (L. Feayanct), with once in a while an ex- 

 tremely pretty coreopsis, having a purple 

 centre, and scarcely to be distinguished from 

 one that is common in gardens. No doubt 

 the advancing season brings an increasing 

 wealth of such beauty to the flat-woods. 

 No doubt, too, I missed the larger half of 

 what might have been found even at the 

 time of my visit; for I made no pretense 

 of doing any real botanical work, having 

 neither the time nor the equipment. The 

 birds kept me busy, for the most part, when 

 the country itself did not absorb my at- 

 tention. 



More interesting, and a thousand times 

 more memorable, than any flower or bird 

 was the pine barren itself. I have given no 

 true idea of it, I am perfectly aware : open, 



