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flowers of the yellow jessamine (Q-elsemiwn semperwrens), these fol- 

 lowed by the white bloom of the Cherokee rose. 



The frequent vines of the bullace grape, Brunnichia, Cissus, and Smi- 

 lax, which entwine bushes and trees, add to the intricacy of the maze 

 of shrubbery on the low hammocks. In their deepest recesses Epi- 

 dendrum conopsewn finds its home upon the limbs of old magnolias and 

 hoary live oaks, being the only epiphytic orchid in the southeastern 

 States outside of the narrow belt of the Antillean flora, skirting the 

 coast of southern Florida and of the adjacent islands, the so-called 

 Keys. Apteria setacea is strictly confined to the rich mold of the ham- 

 mocks. This leafless saprophyte, of a pale bluish color, grows in dense 

 clusters, its numerous contorted roots deeply buried in the ground. 

 It is also not rarely found in Florida and southeastern Georgia. On 

 the shady borders of the hammock are found, flowering early in the 

 spring, Nemopliila microcalyx and Asarum arifolium, followed by the 

 Atamasco lily (Atamosco (Zephyranthes) atamasco) and hoary lupine 

 (Lupinus villosus), and in the summer months by the following: 

 Rhexia mariana. 1 Panicum proliferum mflatum. 



Rhexia lanceolata. Panicum rostratum. 1 



Agrimonia ineisa. Oplismenus hirtellus. 



Amorpha glabra. Eragrostis glomerata. 



Sanicula canadensis. 1 Carex kirsuta. 1 



Paspalum michauxianum. Carex caroliniana. 1 



Paspalum ciliatifolium. 1 Carex debilis prolixa. 



Paspalum praecox. Melica mutica. 1 



Panicum viscidum. 1 Panicum verrucosum. 1 



Panicum gibbum. Arundinaria tecta. 1 



Panicum scabriusculum. 



We have here a mingling of mesophile and paludial types, all char- 

 acteristic of the hammocks, the last three having also a wider range. 

 Ferns are abundant in the damp shade. Dry opteris patens, a cosmo- 

 politan species of subtropical and tropical regions, is confined in our 

 territory almost exclusively to the hammocks. It is accompanied by 

 the more frequent Dryopteris acrostic hoides, Pteris aquilina (form near 

 to caudata), Asplenium platyneuron, Woodwardiaangustifolia^^i^di W. 

 virginica; the last in more moist situations. Lycopodium cernuum is 

 remarkable as one of the few types extending from the tropics to the 

 coast of the Louisianian area which appears to be indigenous with us. 

 Where the terrace merges into the flats of the plain, the border of the 

 hammock becoming frequently wet, tall wool grasses (Eriantlius brevi- 

 barbis, E. strictm, E. saccharoides), coarse beard grass (Andropogon 

 glomeratus), and royal fern ( Osmunda regalis) form conspicuous features 

 in the aspect of the vegetation. 



Pine meadows. Approaching the seashore the terrace of loamy 

 silt passes imperceptibly into the flats of the purely siliceous coast 

 sands, through which the sluggish water courses, subject to the ebb 



1 Found also in the Carolinian area. 



