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branches after each fire.| No doubt far back when this plant 
first came into existence it was an ordinary shrub with a tap- 
tia _ an erect branched Bt Ae any rate, there we found 
br anching 
ian up to five feet t 
South of Melbourne a ne dune, doubtless an active one in a 
former geologic age, ake sete pared Our an ane 
limit of its geographical ee ay the oy eauecaiease (Bumelia 
tenax) at about t ity o ange. The naked- 
stopper (Anamomis), the first representative er the genus found 
G 
recorded geographic range of the less widely distributed of our 
two native century plants (Agave decipiens) about one hundred 
miles northward. 
Cool weather prevailed and blooming plants were in little 
evidence along the coast. r, here and there in the 
h ‘ks o sa’ iderworts (Tradescantia), ir e 
eds 
oe bonesets (Eupatorium), crown-beards es eae 
and aster: roe arti came! the as Carolina aster in the lov 
eee reek border. 
The Halifax. River lagoons a shell-mounds seem to be the 
northern limit of the geographic range of several tropical shrubs. 
ong these may be mentioned snowberry (Chiococca racemos sa), 
0 
lum Fagara), a 
The following quoted ieee from a ae written by am 
Baldwin? in 1817, is interesting, as it described his pean to 
? Journal of The New York Botanical Garden 20: 20. 
it. Mar 
Scnteh nab. eurom Mach to ‘May Pale he visited Florida, peers ing most of 
hi Later in the same year he accompanied a 
