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VEGETATION OF SOUTH FLORIDA 



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drum tampense Lindl. ( = Encyclia tampense (Lindl.) Small) grew in similar 

 positions in full flower (Plate VIII, Fig. 2). Beneath the trees grew Sabbatia 

 dodecandra (L.) B. S. P. with large pink flowers about 5 centimeters (2 inches) 

 in diameter on long flexuous stems. The cypress trees of this head were not 

 festooned with Spanish-moss, but the waxberry, Myrica (Cerothamnus) ceriferus 

 (L.) Small, was an abundant shrub beneath the cypress trees. About half a 

 dozen of these heads were noted in the country between Ft. Myers and Six- 

 Mile Cypress. 



Scattered Cypress along Rivers and Ponds. Along the Miami and New 

 rivers large cypress trees are found growing as isolated specimens, or in small 

 groves. The most southern group of cypress trees noted at a point between 

 Larkin and Kendall comprised about 3 to 4 trees. All along the Caloosahat- 

 chee River, isolated cypress trees grow. The localities on this river where they 

 were noted is as follows : 



Atlantic Coast Line R. R. (draw- 

 bridge). 



Cypress Head with trees draped with 

 Spanish-moss. 



Upcohall. 

 Occasional Cypress trees. 



Idalia. 

 Cypress Head on left bank. 



Oak Bluff. 

 Cypress occasional. 



Rialto. 

 Cypress occasional. 



Owanita. 

 Tall cypress at river edge. 



Aha. 

 Cypress. 



Flower ee. 

 Cypress loaded with epiphytes. 



Bonnet Lake. 



Cypress mingles with the pine forest 

 back of the hammock strip to the 

 left ascending the river. 



Co fee Mill Hammock. 

 Dense stand of cypress blending with 

 frontal hammock and pine forest. 



Lake Okeechobee. 



Single cypress, as a landmark or 

 range tree, situated at the opening 

 of the canal into Lake Okeechobee. 

 In the custard-apple forest, which 

 characterizes the southwest and south 

 shores of Lake Okeechobee, tall 

 cypress trees grow above the general 

 level of the dominant custard-apple 

 trees, Annona glabra L. 



Cypress Scrub. The only information the writer has of this type of cypress 

 growth, if it merits recognition as a distinct association of physiognomic differ- 

 ence, is in a letter from the post-mistress at Immokalee in reply to one directed 

 to that place for information about the Okaloacoochee Slough. Southwest of 

 Immokalee, the Everglades form a narrow embayment, which joins on to the 



