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The dunes were green with stunted spice- -tree (Anamomis), 
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mation was an occasional bush of garberia evidently resulting 
from the seeds with their fluffy pappus blown across from the 
mainland. A few bushes were in owes although it was not 
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Although it is only a stone’s-throw across Mosquito Inlet to 
the continuation of the dunes, we had to double on our route a 
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and then proceed to New Smyrna, whence we crossed the Hills- 
boro River (Lagoon) to the coastal dunes. 
ear Coronado we added another plan the naturalized 
flora of Florida by finding the white sani epee (Hart- 
mannia speciosa) growing on the dunes. This plant is native 
Mexican regi nd in an ly migratio 
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through the agencies of man has finally reached the Atlantic 
coast from South abace to Florida. 
Our objective wa: shell-midden on the shore of Mosquito 
Lagoon several hile mee of Coronado. ere we visited the 
most northern station for the cactus genus aes The 
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opposite Eau Gallie, or a distance of sixty-fiv: in 
ith t on the shell mound was the Hl w id -pepper 
(Peperomia cumulicola). This mound represe: he southern- 
most sta x this wild-pepper, which was eee over a 
century ago on shell-middens at the mouth of the Saint John’s 
River ach of our lately discovered new station it 
on the middens of the aborigines, without exception, with whose 
er of living it may hav connecte ere are sai 
quantities of this -pepper on the I-mi 
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mainland between Daytona and New Smyrna, but this ee 
is the first known for it.on the adjacent coastal dunes. 
Associated with the cactus and the wild-pepper were several 
tropical shrubs and trees, some that also were found on Turtle 
1For other notes on this region see Journal of The New York Botanical 
arden 22: 196-198; 23: 127-128; 24: 
* Journal of The New York Botanical Garden 24: 20-21. 
