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s less plentiful in the Bellair Sand Region than in the Talla- 
hassee Red Hills has not yet aaaoeesies been explained. 
pee southward we came to open pine woods in 
the western of the Gulf Hammock Resort Newport was 
achieved in Ate time and there we secured our first bulbs of a 
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both flower and fruit. Some trees were so copiously laden that 
they seemed about to succumb. The d has 
broader leaf-blades and more Siongate and interrupted spikes 
than the species further northward in the Coastal Plain, from 
which it was recently separated. Thus, together with another 
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= Florida, we have three species in the southeastern 
Stat 
A ie ew miles south of Newport near the confluence of the St. 
Marks River and the Wakulla River lies the town of St. Marks. 
This feueuuia dates back to the early Spanish occupation. 
bo 
Much of botanical interest occurs in the region thereabouts. 
ee was a fine development of a willow (Salix longipes) along 
the river. This willow was discovered the ia rlier part 
f the last century. It has not a very ex xtensive age 
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r e middle states and the trees of hepa ae cilat 
1 roneously referred to The wax-myrt 
(Cerothamnus ceriferu. too, was abundant and, cur : 
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enough, was copiously ‘ifested with a parasitic vine, a dodde 
(Cae glomerata 
Having gone devi the region of the #t. Marks River from 
Newport to its mouth, we returned through the region of the 
Wakulla River. ig a sed es the western side of the river at 
chee: idge. wamp 
plants of a spider-lily (Hymenocallis) aa: nae a gigantic marsh 
fleabane (Pluchea), with large leaves, the lower ones sometimes 
or vot inehe S Bad and very large oe nord nae in 
p lla Hammock 
