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(Peperomia cumulicola) is disappearing. Little did the Florida 
aborigines imagine how valuable their refuse heaps would be to 
a successive race in making hard roads for automobiles in a land 
where rock was scarce or wanting. 
In the hammock on the dunes south of Coronado we were 
surprised to meet a single large specimen of a spider-lily. Dili- 
gent search through the surrounding parts of the hammock 
failed to discover other plants. We await the flowering of this 
blooming in the “scrub” was anelegant mint, a new species of Con- 
radina. Below the mouth of the Lean ‘River the dunes were 
twenty full-sized herbarium specimens. The fruits are pear- 
s. ing. 
ear Vero we came upon acres of one of the plants we especi- 
ally ace a — lily. After collecting a large supply of 
bulbs, nto Vero. There we found fields of the narrow- 
jleaved pee ms (Solidago angustifolia) and the most sho 
golden-aster (Chrysopsis) we have seen. It probably represents 
i i i o the 
pecies. 0s 
coastal sand-dunes. The marshes of the lagoon were carpeted 
wp a pure growth of the sy ee bats aa): of a most 
un 
he ammock- 
clad. “The outer (ocean) and inner oe sides comprise 
mos 
trees are of all sizes and conditio: Many are naked-stemmed, 
others are perfectly clothed with, boots” up to their crowns. 
