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by its cottony or fluffy masses of papp The igi 
lichen (Ramalina usneoides) too draped the. trees, A es sim 
lating the bromeliad Florida-moss. 
We were not long in finding oe -pears. The first one en- 
countered was Fils same as that we had found in such grea 
abundance on the dunes at fee ‘Beach east of ee 
Although the plant covering of t unes is mostly woody, 
herbaceous plants wan ; he le In fact, 
t in the floristics. 
two sages, the one red (Salvia coccinea), the other blue (S. Lyrata), 
were flowering. The flowers of the latter species, which ranges 
as far north as ig middle states, were of a much deeper b'ue 
an in the 
An idea of Ae very spot we visited on the dunes is well ex- 
pressed in some lines written from observation made there in 
December —— a century and a half previous to our visit, 
by hime artra 
he next aes ..., Whilst my companions were 
is our tent, and preparing to re-embark, I resolved to 
make a little oe excursion alone: crossing over a narrow 
isthmus of sand hills, which separated the river from the ocean, 
the beac 
the Agave vivipara [A. neglecta, referred to above] (though com- 
posed of herbaceous plants, I term it a forest, because their 
scapes or flower stems arose erect near feet hi ae their tops 
LWwiltt Hild} FT 
tific work of his father, ee Bartram Gop, the first native American 
botanist. He accompanied his fat o Florida in 1765, insisted upon 
remaining there, and settled as a ‘planter on the St. John’ 's led eae he 
linas, Georgia and a reported i in his published “Travels.” He was a 
i enthusia John Hendley 
Barnhart. 
