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He first eS it in abundance in the hammocks bordering 
Cuthbert Lake'. En route to that very isolated locality he first 
saw mee specimens of it along some of the arboreous tunnels, 
nearly uniform heigh only h-like crown of leaves 
at the top; whereas the colonies in exposed situations had more 
copiously leafy stems and greater variety in These 
Eay: forming its aardes extremity and approaches to 
f the Bay of Florida. Coot Bay, however 
receives its tidal infence not from the nearby Bay of Florida, 
but from the Gul Mexico, whose nearest inlets situated in 
the ea part a Ten Thousand Islands, are about twenty 
miles distant in a direct line. Like the Cuthbert Lake region, 
the Coot Bay region is strictly saline, except for the varying 
rainfall which, ys course, has little effect on the water supply 
of the vegetatio: 
We next eel this palm in Madeira Hammock, which 
surrounds Madeira Bay and is situated a little east of the middle 
of the lower end of ae Florida peninsula. Here, at least in a 
given area, the growth is much more copious than at the two 
The growth of broad-leaved trees is not continuous along the- 
shore of Madeira Bay; but it is interrupted at several places by 
prairies that reach to the water's edge. They are southward 
extensions from the Everglades. 
1 Journal of the New York Botanical Garden 17: 189-202. 1916. The 
Cape Sable Region of aie 1-27. 1919. 
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