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its numbers, but also on account of its ae stems. ae 
rising to three or four feet above the ground are armed, lik 
porcupines, with slender needles a foot or more in length, ee 
the common name—needle-palm. These needles, by the way, 
are tightly woven in the leaf-sheaths and persist for many years. 
Yet this is our most graceful see Sas nd deserves to be more 
widely cultivated for ornamen t has no close relatives in 
the United States. 
Aside from the palms, the river-swamp had a rather desolate 
ting stag 
its de ic prime shea the flowers 
of a other a ‘had patents "Like ome other 
particularly in Poueue ee, this nee (awdephana 
South of Tallahassee ie land falls away rapidly until it 
stands at sea-level at St. Marks, seas is about twenty-six miles 
distant. We drove southwar the water-shed between the 
St. Marks and the Wakulla Rive rs. 
Much of the country about Tallahassee, as we have fate 
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and about two hundred and fifty herbs. The leaves of the 
black-jacks (Quercus Catesbaei), throughout its range, were 
ripened and more or less colored with ae but south of Talla- 
hassee the red becomes intense. As we continued southward 
we we 
early part of the last century. There the Tallahasseeans betook 
themselves to escape malaria. Just why the malarial mosquito 
