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quent survival of the progeny . a ihe kind able to hold its 
wn on a give 
others, lining one or both ae “of the highway, latin 
s Bip bea k Ble chnum), broom- on ss Gane. gall- 
, palm- 
etto een rosemary (Ce ratiola), sedge (Cype rus), ae 
s: 
the western horiz We were treated to a brilliant ps 
whi reovi simu- 
would be realized at last—that we should have a twenty-four 
he field-day of ee but ine hopes faded with the rapid 
flight of the double pageant in thesky. As usual in these lati- 
tudes, night fell swiftly. 
CENTRAL PENINSULAR FLORIDA 
The little-known parts of the interior of the peninsula which 
we had formerly traversed proved so unlike other parts of the 
State that an extensive excursion there was planned and under- 
t 
of Florida. At Melbourne we struck into the interior. Back 
of the settlement lie pine-woods and oak-woods. This region 
represents the known southern limit of eee turkey-oak (Quercus 
Catesbaei) on the eastern coast of Florida. This, too, is just 
north of the divide, on the eastern matt ae the sources 
of the north-flowing and a south- How wing streams. 
Proceeding westward we came to a “scrub” ridge which, per- 
S$, was a series of eer dunes when the land surface was less 
elevated and the St. John’s River basin was a sea. Rai con- 
figuration of the land along the eastern coast suggests that at 
one time some of the stationary cence nd the Sees mdens of 
i ee now part of the mainland lagoons 
West of the ‘‘scrub”’ ridge we passed ease more a 
nineente ins then gave way to prairies, and w 
the upper water-shed of the St. John’s River, ae ay 
