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latter. Plants like the gopher-apple (Geobalanus) and the milk- 
worts (Polygaia) exhibited no effects of the long drought. 
From MIAMI TO CAPE SABLE 
At Kelsey City our party was augmented for several days 
by Fannie C We reached Miami in the evening and the 
next ni t out for the Cape Sable region by land. For 
the distance of twenty-odd miles south Royal Palm 
ammock a ey there is almost flat prairie. Its 
principal herbaceous growth is saw-grass (Mariscus). There 
ofte scattered growth of -cypress (Taxodium) and of 
red-mangrove (Rhizophora) and scattered cks 
of a mixture of temperate and tropical trees. Several of these 
hammocks, which are flooded part of each year, harbor a kind 
of alia that occurs owners cx in ae aa 
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nand 
trees ee and saw-palmetto Roe These palms 
abundan ut half wa 1 
is taken by the beautiful saw-cabbage palm (Paurotis),! a plant 
of very different habit and aspect from any other of our fourteen 
kinds of palms. 
About West Lake where the road crosses from Dade County 
nto Monroe County, maritime plants abound-—sea-oxeye 
cine arborescens), ealewoik (Batis maritima), together with 
‘Christmas-berry (Lyctum carolinianum) and a score of other 
shrubs an herbs. There we discovered the little sea-purslane 
(Sesuvium maritimum)—an addition to the flora of the Florida 
mainland. Blodgett’s potato-shrub (Solanum Blodgettit), which 
a little further inland grows knee-high, there grew nearly twice 
s head and was laden with its pink flowers and 
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fluffy cotton often hung loosely and fell to the ground. 
e hi land and the proximity to the Bay of Florida was 
indicated by ae presence of many mahogany trees (Swietenia) 
and other high hammock plants. 
1 Journal of The New York Botanical Garden 23: 61-70. 
