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peculiar green effect was produced by the odd one-sided spikes 
of toothache-grass (Campulosus). 
During the sae thunder storms appeared in different 
the cts gave ma 
ere 
replaced alon a the stream by another species of the same genus 
owy arrow-wood (V. nudum 
oon as oie Mes shee we headed northward, with 
Zolfo Springs and Avon Park as our aie Ze the Arcadia 
region and northward, naturalized herbs a _—red-peppers 
(Capsicum), and sneeze-weed (Helenium aie? lium). The 
observations on meee love ere brought to mind ie fact mee 
of the 
the lemon, the orange, the guava! All the way to Avon Park, 
where we arrived just after sundown, a native composite, 
= ubi 
oeia Reha e Kissimmee ae 7 floristics of 
egions are sharply defined: e flat-woods, 
is <i ete specialized and least interesting a all the floral 
regions; the other, the southern end of the lake-region, is the 
most specialized and the most interesting. 
efo: ting out for the coast, we devoted some 
time to exploring the ancient sand-dunes north, east, and south 
of L kson. It is, botanically, a fascinating region. It is 
distinctive, rather different from any other area in the State 
of a semi-desert. The nd is dee 
n 
areas barren sand, it is composed of numerous genera and 
species, many of them endemic. 
Nea ne ae of one of the dunes we found a sphagnum bog. 
bush Caineriod ade 
wax-myrtle (Cerothamnus), Swanipoa0 (Tamala), and dah 
