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ern geographical ee Animal life was scarce. Only gigantic 
blue-birds and bald-eagles were in eviden 
We eee the aoe at Port Grace. proceeded to New 
Smyrna, and crossed back again to the dunes south of Mosquito 
Inlet. 
The marshes along the lagoon supported an extensive growth 
of the black-mangrove (Avicennia), which was simultaneously in 
flower and in fruit. 
The wide dunes between the ocean and the lagoon had a more 
scrubby growth then those north of the inlet. The scrub-oaks 
palmetto jails the fight mune woven! the lagoon, how- 
ever, ther f vegetation. It 
wasa ae unusual, even unique, fore st. The main hard-wood 
olisma ferrugin The trunks w I] and spindling and 
both clo with, smooth bark. Among m two tropical 
erbaceous vin nt soa (Mikania ae 
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mber-vine with little etek eee and small spec ar 
fruits 
A curious phenomenon came to our notice here, and elsewhere 
s well: the tropical beggar ticks (Bidens leucantha) had become 
naturalized part icularly on partly disturbed shell heaps. A 
common white butterfly was seen ante by the white 
ciate 2 this plant. On several occasions we were sur- 
prised to see a strange plant with eetonally large and showy 
white foes, only to find, upon closer observation, ere of 
butterflies on the heads of this common weed! 
These Florida shell-middens are extremely eee = 
— standpoints. Their floristics should be made em- 
atic study by some one, for they support a more or ce LL 
great shell- heaps between Daytona and New Smyrna are fast 
being leveled, and with the process the rare wild-pepper plant 
