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VEGETATION OF SOUTH FLORIDA 



o Eugenia buxifolia Willd. Near the beach, Palm Beach, Nov. 19, 1904; 

 Miami, Oct. 28-Nov. 28, 1903. 



Eugenia axillaris (Sw.) Willd. Long Key (Everglades), Jan. 18-26, 1909; 



Miami, Mar. 19, 1904; near Homestead Trail, about Silver Palm 



School, Nov. 24-27, 1904. 

 =t Rapanea guyanensis Aubl. Long Key (Everglades), Jan. 18-26, 1909; + 



about New River Sound, below Ft. Lauderdale, Nov. 25, 1904; south 



of Miami, Mar. 18, 1904. 

 + Icacorea paniculata (Nutt.) Sudw. Near Homestead Road, between 



Cutler and Longview Camp, Nov. 9-12, 1903; Miami, Oct. 27~Nov. 



13, 1901. 

 o Chrysophyllum olivaeforme L. Near Homestead Trail, about Silver 



Palm School, Nov. 24-27, 1904; Snapper Creek, south of Cocoanut 



Grove, Oct. 27-31, 1901; between Cocoanut Grove and Cutler, 



Nov. 13-23. 



Sapota achras Mill. Arch Creek, above Miami, Nov. 7, 1904; between 



Cocoanut Grove and Cutler, Nov. 13-23. 



+ Bumelia microcarpa Small. Homestead to Big Hammock Prairie, Feb. 

 15-17, 1911; Long Key (Everglades), May 6-7, 1904. 



+ Dipholis salicifolia (L.) A. DC. Miami, Apr. 10, 1904; Long Key (Ever- 

 glades), May 6-7, 1904. 



Sideroxylon foetidissima Jacq. Ft. Myers, July and Aug., 1911; Snapper 



Creek, south of Cocoanut Grove, Oct. 27-31, 1901. 



+ Solanum verbascifolium L. Near the Homestead Road, between Cutler and 

 Longview Camp, Nov. 9-12, 1903; Miami, Oct. 28-Nov. 28, 1903. 



Crescentia latifolia Mill. Brickell Hammock, Feb., 1911; near Little 



River, Apr. 4, 1909. 



Guettarda scabra Vent. Ft. Lauderdale, Nov. 19-25, 1903. 



=*= Psychotria undata Jacq. Long Key (Everglades), May 6-7, 1904; 

 Miami, Oct. 28-Nov. 24, 1903. 



CYPRESS SWAMP FORMATIONS 



One of the most conspicuous and characteristic plant formations of the 

 southern states, as well as of Florida, is one in which the swamp-, bald-, or de- 

 ciduous cypress, Taxodium distichum (L.) L. C. Rich., plays an important role. 

 The cypress is nearly confined to the coastal plain from southern Delaware to 

 southern Florida, westward near the Gulf of Mexico to Texas, and up the 

 Mississippi Valley to Missouri and Indiana. Closely related to it is a species, 

 Taxodium imbricarium (Nutt.) Harper (=ascendens Brongn.), which grows in 



