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are cleaned. The corals varied from the wee “brains” 
o the delicate staghorn-like forms, among which the cuttle- 
es h like to hide and eject their black fluid a disturbed. The 
g 
ashore a! gain and examined = flora of the island as far north as 
ies 
The high land of the key is now pine-clad, although it was 
perhaps, at one time all hammock- aed. just as the upper Flor ida 
Keys are at present. Several censuses show that the herbaceous 
cacti (Cephalocereus keyensis, C. Deeringii), semaphore prickly- 
pear eee new s species), eae Tilion (Polygala praeter- 
hre 
visa), varnish-leaf bergit). Some of aia e-sinks 
filled with a growth of saw-palm oe (Serenoa repens) and saw 
grass (Mariscus panne abounded with the leopar d-frog? 
(Rana sphenocephala). es inion were lead frequented 
y alligators and crocodiles, but large a s have mostly 
disappeare whit are aie “Helio sim ag phyllum) 
proved an addition to the flora of the Fl 
e afternoon was spent in the mock on southern 
r t ha A 
extension of Big Pine. The combined effects of a long drought 
and the storm of the previous year did not render it as prolific 
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? Coastwise dunes and lagoons. Reprint sn Journal of The New York 
Botanical Garden 20: 191-207, fonrpinee: facing 
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