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some of the scrubby inal indicated a very recent rain- 
neni although one would not have suspected it from the 
eon (Ruellia), whose large funnelform corollas remain 
e plant about half a day and then fall and lie on the white 
oa for the rest of the day. 
Instead of crossing the dunes lying between Lake Jackson 
the wheels usually sank up to the hubs. This ddiay greatly 
reduced our opportunity for collecting in the adjacent pinewoods 
and on the Istokpoga and Okeechobee Prairies. The afternoon 
d 
On the way to Okeechobee City, the first settlement to the 
eastward, we noticed but few flowers in the pinewoods. Most 
of them were shades of yellow, St. John’s-wort (Hypericum), 
yellow-buttons (Acanibas bern, bladder-wort (Stomoisia), 
p 
higher eer a tall one (H. fasciculatum) in the low places; a 
pa ae (Sabhatio arondifore) struggled for existence here 
d ther ry s was, however, one plant 
ent in ee faa nena normal in spite of ony 
drought, just as it had been nearly everywhere we had bee 
Saar of geology, Seaty altitude, and pee Ge 
vegetable hat-pin, each of which is stuck in a cushion of densely 
placed narrow leaves, a pipewort SS sidan flaviculus). 
We passed through a strip of hitherto u orded ‘‘scrub” 
west of the Kissimmee River and then came . oe hammocks 
bordering the western shore of the river. The button-bush 
(Cephalanthus) was there in flower and the bushes were mostly 
