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on the pop-ash trees and some were coming into flower. Five 
resemble so many blue butterflies. Two tall slender plants, the 
phe aa (Polygala ena with rose-purple flowers oie 
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th ow flowers, 
Bee everywhere. The fre aie Cine fires had spared some 
parts, and there elders eae and tall sage-verbenas (Lan- 
tana) had sprung up in the saw-palmetto islands and decorated 
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tree (Sabal Palmetto)—where we crossed the Kissimmee River, 
h , marshes, and blind channels of the st ere 
completely covered or ith large aquatic plant 
re water-lettuce stia), water-hyacinth (Piaropus), 
spatterdock (Nymphaea), pe aoe ia f course, 
there were smaller aquatics, such as eeds (Potamo ie 
arrowheads (Sagittaria), and eating heart i Nymbhoides) whos 
eir lea re 
underground, and yet others Sas of tuberous roots in the 
inflorescences, all of which enable a parent plant, should 
adverse conditions conspire to destroy it, to perpetuate the 
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The Indian Prairie was dry, even to the deepest sloughs. 
In the sloughs, nevertheless, the — (Cladium) and the 
usually a eee Saint aie s-wort (Hypericum eke 
culatum) were in flow The s eee islands had thei 
accompanying, Galak jaa s-wort (H. epee: The prairie 
as usual, b were in evidence. 
Small Sana of purple thistle stood out in the brown-green 
carpet; larger areas, cons) and even brilliant, of the rose- 
purple ane (Agalinis Se made a wonderful show. 
There was one ubiquitous plant, a pipewort (Syngonanthus), 
