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not only as to vegetation, but also topography. At the 
present tate of development the whole stretch of that unique 
strand will lose its original condition. 
Driving through Daytona on our way southward, we were 
struck by three ideas, one of regret, the others of satisfaction. 
i ded in 18 i i 
g 
This town, foun , had originally bee mi ra 
settlement of the etween one and two centuries old 
omoka; but through the selfishness or narrow-mindedness of 
some one the nam soon been changed to the less euphonious 
one it still bears. 
But there are two points to be thankful for. As someone has 
propriate shrubs and trees TeO he resi 
use of many native plants for their landscaping, and particularly 
prominent is the native coontie (Zamia umbrosa), i use: 
s. 
This plant is robust and healthy in nature, and cultivation 
The hammocks on the shell mounds near Port Oman y ae 
another prickly-pear (Opuntia) not before found by us. This wa: 
a bushy plant with numerous deep-green, ee joints ak 
were armed with pale, solitary or paired spines and bore rather 
slender fruits. 
On the floor of the hammock in the dense shade, where in the 
winter the wild-pepper ae ahs cumulicola) grows to the ex- 
baceous 
however, were the nascent flowering stalks for the coming season 
ecember 
We pushed on to New Smyrna, where we called on Professor 
H. C. Beardslee! and cared for specimens we collected in the 
‘Henry Curtis Beardslee was born 28 September 1865, at Painesville, 
