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in results as one would normally expect. Except where the 
arcoal burners had made trails and clearings, the jungle was 
a riot of tropical shrubs and trees, and it was almost impene- 
trable, or quite impenetrable where the cacti grew abundantly. 
There, woody as ak en soles to the exclusion of 
e 
areacienne (Conocarpus), en (Metopiu a an - 
Lobi. he la 
aa indigo- berry (R Th ti plant occurred 
as a small tree, just as we found it in the hammocks along the 
Halpatioke River! about a year before onspicuous shrub 
was one 0 gbane family, the tear-shrub, Valesia glabra 
botanical name t green, glossy foliage is contrasted 
strongly with the clusters of white, slender, trumpet-shap 
flowers and ooping, pearly, tear-like fruits 
. baceous plants aside fro opical ds were st 
ven the cacti were hosts for epiphytes. ese kinds of Tilla 
os both small and large, and a tree orchid (Encychia pee cee 
Sees a orment An mber of shrubs be fruits of 
the flocks aE his chide, anes fe we ever noticed on the Florida 
Reef. 
In crossing the grassy plain between the hammock and t 
d not 
water in a course we had not before taken, we 
very extensive beds of a prostrate prickly-pear. It was quit 
different from any we had viously foun The loosely 
articulated joints were very unequal turgid, d wit! 
latively vei ng slender spin fi were present, 
t the fruits—smaller than those of any of ou own species 
ere m the ane of the fruits, the autumn 
would seem to be its flowering se 
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