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oe ae ni a cabbage-tree (Sabal texana) again appears 
he Gulf 
Down THE EASTERN COAST 
Just twenty-three hours after mene ee on the 
Gulf coast, ie entered Daytona on t 
H h 
owever, before actually starting southward we crossed the 
Halifax ‘River (Lagoon) to the coastal sand-dunes for further 
es in os strand-flora of that Tegicn 
brilliant ; green. The foliage of the dense, woody vegetation tae 
i i . Shrub: 
crushing down the trees so that they are unable to grow upright 
— 
spruce- pine (Pinus clausa) there and southward through- 
havi 
common name, spruce-pin 
As a result Coe in the sand-dunes for building 
ighways, we had a glimpse of the habits of the roots in that 
drainage for the meee water coe the numerous roots of all the 
plants, especially the woody ones, even of the smaller kinds, 
“go to great lengths,”’ peat on the higher dunes, to reac 
tabl 
e. 
These dunes, along with the entire strand flora of the eastern 
coast of Florida, should be made the subject of a special mono- 
graph at an early dat Large stretches of dune-formation, 
both at the north and at the south, have already been destroyed, 
