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straggling hammock with clumps of the saw-cabbage palm 
(Paurotis Ha The floristics of the Miami oolite would 
be prairie with scattered egestas islands or rarely a pine island. 
The charac fe pure woody growth on the Lossman’s 
River limestone region is as he ee (Rhizophora Mangle), 
which exhibits nearen how firmly habits of growth are fixed 
in plants. Now, this typically coastwise plant is present inland 
either as a remnant of a ae when the land was less elevated and 
the present growth is a result of seeds washed in during the high 
cau ned 
water De enna: eae from the south. At any 
he pl nd althoug 
special anchor rage to ke eep the indi vidual s from being washed 
way is unnecessary, each little mangrove plant when only 
xnee- ae sends out just as many anchor-roots as like plants do 
‘ mud-flats. 
The characteristic pure woody growth on the Miami a 
is the pond-cypress (Taxodium ascendens), which is often 
thickly placed that in winter, when the foliage is peated ie 
great areas see an trees ave babe effect of a aze over 
t 
i g 
develops just as large a neal a trunk-base and subterranean 
anchor-roots as it does anyw: 
e left the vee Sable region on the afternoon December 
nineteenth for rvey of the eee eastern coast of the State. 
We stopped several hours in Miami during the evening for the 
alias of packing, and then started northward again. Most 
the obs aoe ae along the way are for discussion in 
ani papers; but a few may be touched upon here. 
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a which had apparently reverted t rimitive h 
wth. The gopher-apple Cn ie ek. scoving 
as as usually does in a continuously fire-ravished region, has 
assumed the t of burying its main ste round 
by fire, but the main stem is undamaged, and sends up new 
