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The active sand-dunes ee their ieee hammocks held 
much of interest The hammock is stunted, wind-worn and 
movements. They are picturesque and grotesque—topo- 
graphical hobeobling, as it Were: They mmOVE pion: there and 
when the and other 
objects for a while = then passing ae and releasing the 
objects they have bur 
Few plants ee he se shifting sands. The Spanish- 
bayonet (Yucca aloifolia), saw-palmetto (Serenoa repens 
bage-tree (Sabal Palmetio), and wax-myrtle (Cerothamnus 
sides of the hillocks in — ae but always huddled 
together—hugging one another, o speak, like fr cies 
children—in seeming ee of their precarious existen 
i ding. 
Altogether this dune country suggests a miniature Sahara, 
except that the oases are mostly on the elevations instead of in 
the depressions. 
JouN K. SMALL 
(To be continued) 
CONFERENCE NOTES FOR NOVEMBER 
The November conference of the Garden staff and registered 
students was held in a museum building on Wednesday, 
November The am was as follows: 
te leaios in Florida i in ie Sariig of 1922."-—Dr. J. K. 
Small. 
“Bolivian Species of Vernonia.’’—Dr. H. A. Glea 
Dr. Small in his talk on exploration in peninsular Florida and 
on the Florida Keys in the spring of 1922 illustrated the results 
specimens and by photographs. The main aon were 
grouped under: 2 noteworthy extensions of the geographic 
ranges of rare species, (b) the endemic and otherwise eae 
flora of kitchen ee aboriginal village sites, and Indian 
burial mounds, (c) the tropical plant-covering of the kitchen- 
