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In a wet hammock south of Black Creek several tall asters 
and a yellow marigold were in full bloom. The noteworthy plant 
aie as a new alder (Alnus). It is related to the 
ooth-alder (Alnus rugosa), which ranges from northern Florida 
northward, but as erent leaves and aller fruiting 
aments our course, west of hn’s, ferns, saw- 
ents. Along our : 
palmetto, and ‘scrub’ were scarce. After crossing the river 
Be Pelaties these aa a ch more into eve a: lowering 
n the pinelands aa go aes oe (Actinospermum) and 
patches the “scrub.” Three palms, ca eco ae (Sabal 
t inued on to Daytona. Almost impassable root 
delayed us north of De Land, while, strange to record, fog 
delayed us between De Land and Dayt The weather had 
become chilly and the moisture verhanging the 
m es and swamps condensed into terrestrial clouds, which 
hung a few feet above the ground, and that our 
spotlight would scarcely penetrate f On thi ad, a 
te) 
much traveled hi eee great caution tea to be observed, 
therefore, in regard to speed. 
At Daytona we pie the Halifax River to the ocean and 
drove down the gas sand-dunes for the distance of ten miles 
to Mosquito Inl 
The rapt development of dunes and their plant- 
clumps of He nea aa (Baccharis), although not pretty, 
together with g and fruiting clusters of the tropical 
hemp-vine ean cordifolia), lent “color” to the landscape 
