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see so to ae of the dune and lagoon vegetation from the 
Saint Mary’s River to Cape Sable will be possible. It con- 
stitutes one ee the many interesting problems presented by the 
vegetation of Florida. 
The next leg of our course extended from Cocoa to Stuart, 
which is situated at the southern end of the Indian River. Our 
proposed examination of the coastal dunes of Ibourne 
and Malal was frustrated by the still incomplete s 
of the bridge spanning the lagoon. Only casual observations 
herbaceous plants ie he ackward and indifferent condition of 
the agen rooted pla 
We t left the ae at Hobe Sound and landed on 
Jupiter nae This is a long and narrow undulating or rollin 
and-dune extending from Saint Lucie Inlet to Jupiter Inlet, or 
es t fifteen ee in le eng ne Our —_ = pveins showed 
it to be a regio: e plant-covering 
is Ba saw- “palmetto aa. with Lae or even miniature 
hammocks. The growth is dense and the branches pressed down 
e dunes suggest: vast green crazy-quilt e 
shades of ¢g are conspicuous; they are ev 
the dunes south of Jupiter, perhaps because they face a little 
towards the southeast instead of to the northeast, and t re 
more densely and numerously populated with tropical broad- 
