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THE BOTANICAL FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH 
A RECORD OF EXPLORATION IN FLORIDA IN APRIL 1920 
(Continued, with plates 278 and 279) 
A Detour Across THE PENINSULA 
About one year after the hog-cabbage palm was discovered 
on the eastern coast of Florida, another palm new to the flora 
cently abandoned or long neglected were great natural nurseries 
of ragweed (Ambrosia) rare careless (Acnida), propagating their 
kind by the dispersal of their numerous seed 
e purple panicles 7 the hound” S- ae (Trilisa), so 
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the spatter-dock (Nymphaea), the water-lily (Castalia) and the 
floating-heart (Nymphoides)—the latter furnishing, in habit, 
pale-yellow bracts and spikes of the aquatic queen’s-root (Still- 
ingia) grew in solid borders. 
In the lower pine woods there were purple flowers in addition 
to the thistle—pine-hyacinth (Viorna), marsh-pink (Sabbatia), 
and prairie-pink (Lygodesmia). But eae ee were in the 
preponderance, in kind as well as in num Ther re yellow- 
eyed grass (Xyris), alum-root (Aletris), ie (Polyect a), St. 
John’s-wort (Hypericum), St. Peter - 
wort (Utricularia), tickseed (Coreopsis), and sneezeweed (Hel- 
enium). Pink was the color of the flowers of the two shrubs then 
blooming in the higher pinelands, namely, the fetter-bush (Des- 
