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Mound. prominent among them were the torchwood 
(Amyris cemifes, stopper (Eugenia axillaris), wild-lime 
(Zanthoxylum Fagara), and a curious form of the snowberry 
(Chiococca) which exhibited the habits of a shrub, a creeper, 
a climbing vine 
All these large kitchen- ii communal gardens, arti- 
nd gen rodu 
for much of the shell ma sterial has already been carried away, 
and most of the prickly-apple and the wild-pepper plants were 
hanging tops downward by the ow - iis roots over the face 
of the mound that had been cut 
he air-plants were in evidence oe ce Florida-moss (Dendro- 
pogon), and by one of the small wild-pines (Tillandsia recurvata). 
can withstand more ca areal is the Hite ie — 
a tree-orchid which o and extends 
northward as far as peat South Carolina. 
The shore and marshy places near this midden abounded in 
salt-loving plants; at least several kinds were much in evidence, 
all representing the simpler dicots, except the last one cited 
in the following list: samphire (Selicornia), saltwort (Batis), 
sea-blite (Dondia), beach-carpet (Philoxerus), sea-purslane 
(Sesuvium), marsh-hyssop (Bremia). 
About a rather recently abandoned settlement the growth of 
both wild and cultivated plants was rank. Several exotics had 
i for its fruits, and another are’s-ear (Conringia 
orientalis), a flower-garden t, and a mustard relati he 
trees of the lucky-nut Soils piies a the fig (Ficus Car- 
tca), formerly planted about an old dwelling, were maintaining 
themselves with sree ee a a spreading into the 
hammock. 
Upon returning to the mainland we hastened southward and 
at Oak Hill we again left the Dixie Highway and ran down a 
narrow peninsula which terminates in the head of the Indian 
