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In this connection it may be interesting to quote what William 
Baldwin wrote while oe through the nearby coastal region 
more me a century a: 
“along with a sanole of starch, aie Has the root of 
what appease to me to be a species of Palm at Matanzas, 
30 miles south of St. Augustine. I shal Il oe oe about it 
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possession of [ea ie on dsides. e 
approached the northern en ee Tae ree region a 
number of heaths appeared in flower. More prominent among 
them dwarf- huck leber (as ssacia dumosa), i ietterbush 
cosa, 
Examples of the changing of the plant-covering of the State 
confronted us several t Large areas that formerly, and at 
rollers of sand sometimes cove mile. 
The inside ae or two are nia cGristicalty ane er ee 
1 Reliquiae Baldwinianae 218. 1843. 
