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VEGETATION OF SOUTH FLORIDA 



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of small plantations, if judiciously handled, and "a kingdom as full of people 

 as hives are of bees," in the words of the first discoverer in writing to King 

 Ferdinand of Spain. 



The following list of plants was made from the sheets in the Herbarium 

 of the New York Botanical Garden: 



A PARTIAL LIST OF EVERGLADE PLANTS 



Tripsacum floridanum Porter. 



Andropogon tenuispatheus Nash. 



Coelorachis (Manisuris) rugosa (Nutt.) Nash. 



Paspalum giganteum Baldw. 



Paspalum solitarium Nash. 



Valota insularis (L.) Chapm. 



Syntherisma marginatum (Link) Nash. 



Panicum agrostoides Muhl. 



Panicum coerulescens Hack. 



Panicum condensum Nash. 



Panicum ciliiferum Nash. 



Panicum neuranthum Griseb. 



Panicum polycaulon Nash. 



Steinchisma hians (Ell.) Nash. 



Chaetochloa imberbis (Poir) Scribn. 



Chaetochloa magna (Griseb.) Scribn. 



Muhlenbergia filipes M. A. Curtis. 



Spartina junciformis Engelm. & Gray. 



Phragmites phragmites (L.) Karst. 



Eragrostis Elliottii S. Wats. 



Cyperus alternifolius L. 



Cyperus haspan L. 



Cyperus paniculatus Rottb. 



Cyperus Pollardi Britton. 



Cyperus tetragonus Ell. 



Fuirena breviseta Coville. 



Fuirena scirpoidea Michx. 



Eleocharis capitata (L.) R. Br. 



Eleocharis cellulosa Torr. 



Dichromena colorata (L.) A. Hitchc. 



Rhynchospora caduca Ell. 



Rhynchospora corniculata (Lam.) A. Gray. 



Rhynchospora divergens M. A. Curtis. 



Rhynchospora Tracyi Britton. 

 Scleria gracilis Ell. 

 Scleria verticillata Muhl. 

 Peltandra virginica (L.) Kunth. 

 Eriocaulon compressum Lam. 

 Eriocaulon decangulare L. 

 Eriocaulon Ravenelii Chapm. 

 Pontederia cordata L. 

 Juncus megacephalus M. A. Curtis. 

 Aletris bracteata Northrop. 

 Aletris lutea Small. 

 Crinum americanum L. 

 Hymenocallis occidentalis Kunth. 

 Ibidium cernuum (L.) House. 

 Limodorum Simpsonii Small. 

 Platypus altus (L.) Small. 

 Nymphaea advena macrophylla (Small) 



Miller & Standley. 

 Magnolia virginiana L. 

 Chrysobalanus pellocarpus Mey. 

 Ascyrum tetrapetalum (Lam.) Vail. 

 Hypericum opacum T. & G. 

 Tamala (Persea) pubescens (Pursh.) Small. 

 Oxypolis filiformis (Walt.) Britton. 

 Acerates floridana (Lam.) A. Hitchc. 

 Buchnera elongata Sw. 

 Cephalanthus occidentalis L. 

 Lobelia glandulosa Walt. 

 Lobelia paludosa Nutt. 

 Pluchea foetida (L.) B. S. P. 

 Coreopsis gladiata Walt. 

 Coreopsis Leavenworthii T. & G. 

 Mesadenia lanceolata (Nutt.) Raf. 



FRESHWATER MARSH FORMATION 



There seems to be in popular usage no apparent difference between a marsh 

 and a swamp, and the definitions of the two words in our dictionaries of the 

 English language have confused their essential significance. Harper* has 



* Harper, Roland M. : Some Neglected Aspects of the Campaign Against Swamps. Southern 

 Woodlands 2: 46-67, Aug., 1008; Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci. 17:25, 1906. 



