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which showed itself by millions of S erect heads of flowers, 
ie ies so many white shoe-but 
Here again we passed eels is dead garden spots, for 
ock lea 
lations had furnished fuel of the m Buea ki iy These 
numerous palm-clumps, varying en a square rod to acres in 
ishes on the record of man’s ‘progress. 
The undamaged cabbage-tree hammocks yielded some 
sembled piles of finely divided iron-rust. 
Havi 
of the Caloosahatchee, we headed up the northern side of the 
body a tail-like ridge runs off towards the southeast, while t 
slightly divergent ridges extend ey the northwest from ce 
opposite side. At the time of our visit there were about thirty 
different kinds of plants in evidence on the body of the mound, 
It Thes 
which is built up of sand. ese plants were about equally 
divided iia herbaceous and woody kinds. Among the 
oody Ss were one pine (Pinus palustris), two palms (Sabal 
Palmetto, eu repens), one wood e vi ne Smilax Beyrichit), 
and five oaks (Quercus pumila, Q. m a, Q. rtifolia, Q. 
Cha ; Q geminata) he heroes plants represente 
famiiles rangin all the way fr e grasses to t. 
op-ash hammocks the ash t 
were in Sat and the eee of winged ane often seemed to 
rival the leaves in numbers. ne more common mixed hammocks 
were made up mainly of oa nia ial sa Q. nigra), 
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a growth of the air-plant (T ee tenutfolia), which was 
nei ae noticeable on account of its dark-red foliage. The 
only conspicuous flowering herb on the way to La Belle was 
