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while the black-mangrov es grow larger. That we were getting 
th look indicated, we t have been a thousand 
miles from anywhere, bu met an ox-team carrying a sur- 
veyor’s outfit, and we were on the very line of that part of the 
proposed Tamiami Trail, which pels is planned to connect 
Miami with Tampa, when it is fini. 
However, all the outlook was not ae fori in all directions, 
S 
tions. Som the plant-associations e permanently de- 
oe for fe areas would never be ee d by the same 
vegetation. 
Various kinds of woody vegetation were es 7 = distant 
he and” 
landscape. The composition of each ‘‘head” o of 
trees could be recognized at the distance of eee) es Thus, 
ae ana cypress, an boob ties green 
We hastened over ee prairie to the point ee cypress, which 
a ham 
mock composed of a mixture of shrubs an’ se trees, some character- 
istic of northern climes, others of souther: 
This point of cypress was the type feel for arbores- 
cens2 It was discovered there in the spring of 1888 by the late 
Pliny W. Reasoner.2 We were not long in See ae very trees 
1 Natural History 20: 488-500. 
2 Journal of The New York Boal Garden I-70. 
3 Pliny Ward Reasoner was born May 6, 1863, at aan Illinois, ohh 
he received his education as at an early ag ae came interested in bot: 
and horticulture. About 3 he went to Florida, establishing the re ie 
Palm Nurseries at Oneco, aioe: in 1885 ae a es with his brother, 
