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Nowhere was the sandy soil of these sebaae exposed. 
Ground-covers carpeted everywhere. In some places, in the 
higher parts, a fine-stemmed spike-rush (Bleocharis) made a 
vivid ais carpet, in other places a deep green carpet was 
formed by a dense growth of marsh-purslane (Isnardia), while 
here and there the more delicate and brighter green mud-carpet 
(Hemianthus) grew exclusively. 
In the lower parts of the hammocks, where water stands 
i 
of Amblystegium, in other places by a fernwort—Azolla caro- 
liniana. 
Both these plants lay matted on the sand ready to float as 
ae . ae we would fill the depressions. Anchored in the 
mong these plant carpets was the spatterdock 
ae. oa not ait its delicate submerged leaves devel- 
Wi y 
We noticed the gray-polypody (Polypodium), the Florida-moss 
(remtropeson); four kinds > Be -pines ia) and many 
-orchid (Encyclia tampensis). 
In some regions the hiohiee areas of the prairies were islands 
of pineland instead of hammock. Still farther north the small 
crest of the water-shed, if such apparently flat country can be 
st, mi airi rs appeared. 
parently meadow- 
(Rhexia Moriana), and _black- ae (Mecardonia acuminata). 
Large areas, au were awe in a way, even where ee. 
flowers were absent, by the iads of inflorescences of a 
topped nut-rush ene a red-topped rush ee 
and the black-topped broom-rush (Schoenus). In addition, a 
