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relationship. The two former grew in the Piuenioes ieee 
the latter occurred on the dune-like edges of the salt-m 
St. Marys was laid out with a view to preventing eae 
streets. All the streets are Sane ae and shaded with 
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which j is built of rocks that were brought there as ships’ ballast 
from many parts of the world. 
The second day was merken to the region about the mouth 
of the St. John’s River and the dunes south of it. As we ap- 
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of th ki we had previously found in Florida or else- 
where. Associated with the prickly-pea s a remarkable 
thistle—a species of Cirsium. Only the basal rosettes of leaves 
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basket, and the large leaves were of a light gray color and 
very spinescent. 
The dunes between Atlantic Beach and weve Beach were 
mostly wellshrub-clad. Palms d by the cabbage- 
tree (Sabal Palmetto) and the saw- -palmetto (Serenoa repens). 
The hard-wood shrubs were chiefly wax-myrtle (Cerothamnus), 
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The oaks were often fantastic objects as a result of the action 
of the almost continuous winds from the ocean. The more 
striking form assumed by several kinds of oaks might be called 
the umbrella or mushroom form. The trunks were only about 
