USEFUL WILD PLANTS 



tip of our country, being indigenous to the Florida 

 peninsula. One, known to botanists as Zamia 

 pumila, L., occurs in dense, damp woods of central 



FLORIDA ARROWROOT 

 (Zamia sp.) 



Florida: the other, Z. Floridana, DC., is a wilding 

 of the open, dry, pine region of the east coast of 

 southern Florida. They are popularly called Coon- 

 tie or Coontah, the Indian name. The stiff, fern- 



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