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sagitiaia) has a root-system that enables it to grow equally 
ell in moist mucky soil or in macadam. Here it grew in the 
with a lace-work of its narrow-lobed leaves—and bore numerous 
flowers with their fares. lavender corollas. We tarried but a 
short time in the L and then set out for Miami, 
where we arrived in the evening. 
A CRUISE AMONG THE FLORIDA Keys 
While we were on a three-day cruise to Lignum Vita 
favored us for two oor of Steamboat Creek, which 
cuts off an arm , was quite visible and wa ed 
t succession of beautiful growths, more ae an we 
have seen elsewhere, of aes (Thalassi a manatee- 
grass (Cymodocea). We lay in Jewfish Creek i first night out 
The following day brought us to Big Pine Ke ere was an 
al dead calm throughout former 
occasion,' the horizon was indistinguishable agai a 
seaweeds, we vidence on the b Few specimens wer 
floating, for those that had been broken loose before the calm 
had already been carried away by the action of the tides. Four 
inds of flowering plants, all resembling seaweeds in ae more 
than the usual flowering pues could be seen. we 
turtle-gra 5sia), manatee-grass (Cymodocea), ee 
(Halodule), and halophila (Er lophi Among the prominent 
hored animals were sponges, ranging from the coarse, ofte: 
gigantic ‘‘loggerhead”’ to the delicate ‘‘sheepswool,’’ none, 
h 
owever, showing the delicate structure that is visible after they 
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