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in the direction of the colony of Palmdale, through open pine- 
woods and prairies. The enticing hammocks bordering Fisheat- 
ing Creek were visible on the horizon toward the west. They 
were doubly conspicuous on account of the high greens of the 
new foliage. 
The most striking phenomenon along the trail itself was the 
trees in the vicini 1 the prairies two low 
shrubs of very distantly related pla milies grew scatte 
here an are the widely distributed heath fetter- 
and a pawpaw (Asimina) with large white liquorice-scented 
ers. 
crossed Fisheating Creek near Palmdale. The water of 
was then completely hidden by a growth of water- 
ae eaeihel that had developed in less than a year’s 
time, for when we last crossed there the stream was free of any 
visible plant growt 
he was now eee, and hastening on to Fort Myers 
with the butterfly-orchid Gaal with its large panicles 
of red-brown. flowers. 
e found a barge to take us across the inlet which separates 
f Caxa 
or springs. The settlement is situated on Caxambas Island 
