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little nettle (Urtica chamaedryotdes). There it was a widely 
ranching plant growing up to four or five feet 
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d comm: 
the east, the coastal dunes raeueee ae and south, and the 
aris and the mainland to t into the distant 
nds. 
ree a ae faethe the eile quotation we read: 
ittl x been paid to the natural history 
of 2 oe Peeaaal ae Teast by Americans.” (Written in 
1859 
t years the iene to Turtle Mound is said to have 
sealed that we put it in our = of dead gardens. However, 
ear later we learned that some public- ae nee had 
succeeded in rescuing aie mound and intended to preserve it 
When the day was too eee a for further collecting we re- 
turned to Daytona, and the following morning resumed our 
southward course, by starting out over the coastal sand-dunes 
towards Mosquito Inlet. 
The dunes were more desolate- looking than usual. However, 
were rampant. An occasional small pat ms es open ham: 
even a sand-bank was a mass of color, yellow ae by 
partridge-pea (Chamaecrista) or blue-purple by spiderwort 
(Tradescantia). The scrub-oaks had donned their new greenery, 
Dow: e 
early le ents of that region—the cherry-laurel Sareea 
Laurocerasus). It was thoroughly at home in the hammock. 
