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he mossy banks and with it a relative, the eabees (Pin- 
guicula pumila), mostly in different shades of blu 
The largest development of peat-moss (Sphagnum) we neve 
seen in Florida occurred in that swamp. We 
however, in not finding spider-lilies or crinums awe in the 
region 
Traveling southward, the country again gradually became more 
elevated and for man ed more desolate, almost flowerless, 
and ambi ed. However, as soon as the fea ee of the 
lake country were naa settlements, as nu n pro: 
orn as they were deat eg we left Groveland, sppeated 
and we passed puede 
towns! We now began to climb and descend hills or ance 
aun them a usally a ayer or a large lake in view. This 
f 1 it d on rather elevated land, some 
of the hills rising to more than two hundred feet in altitude. 
In fact, the region is an irregular plateau with rolling hills, where 
groves of the upland willow-oak often supplant those of the 
ive-oak. 
On coming out of the lower parts of the i oe uate water- 
were blooming, particulany yellow-flowered kinds—St. John’s- 
wort (Hypericum), St. Peter’s-wort (Ascyrum), yellow-buttons 
Ss , an ers. atter stly pink and 
negleta)—evidently Drought there front ne eastern coat 
su shure but widely naturalized in hep oods. The 
mspicuous native flower was the parae eet (Actino- 
S. 
the southern part there is much ee ie hing’ a series of 
