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which we found on the old dunes near the eastern coast was 
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in northern Florida. Sine nc the e has nes 
emarkable phenomenon of these ancient dunes is te 
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not strange that a peculiar flora exists and that forms different 
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part of their floristics. There are not only endemic species 
there, but genera as well. One new genus has been referred to 
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ding 
(Hy pericaceae), but it is quite raat in habit from any of the 
genera of that family heretofor 
We penetrated as far south es aie sand hills as our motor 
would take us, and then returning to Sebring we struck out 
ns. t the 
eastern edge of the sand-dunes we found some of the rare plant 
we had collected in the forenoon ei towards Kuhlman, and 
then we pressed on towards the prair: 
Prairie fires and subsequent rains had resulted in a fresh and 
brilliant green plant-covering against which the bordering 
hammocks and hammock islands looked black. The prairies 
were a less rich in flowering plants than the sand-dunes. 
The greenery was bespangled here and there with the white 
1 Journal of The New York Botanical Garden 21: 48. 1920 and 22: 38. 
1921. 
