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In both the high hammock and the low hammock vines were 
nt different kinds were abundant; hippocratea 
(Hippocratea), morning-glory oea), moon: r (Cal = 
tion), rubber. (Rhabdadenia), mil vine (Philaberielia), 
a d devil caw (Pssonia)- The SS were so dense 
very slow and 1 laborious, 
and additional trouble was added in a“ low hammocks by the 
ever-present, often epiphytic, cacti, dildo (Acanthocereus), 
n the 
high hammocks and the low hammocks were beginning to 
bears broad smooth leaves, in texture fen sole-leather, 
a flo Ger stlk eight feet long or les: 
h 
side of the State, os has a single fragrant flower with green 
sepals on each sca 
Here it may be is interest to refer briefly to two specialties 
of the excursion 
Dr. Kelly, driven by an old penchant, was continually looking 
The two more closely related branches of the animal econ 
are particular friends of vegetation. The one, nature’s most 
° , nature’s most graceful creatures of land— 
st universally shunned animals ectively, birds and 
snak stroy ny other ki f animals whose 
methods of life are inimical to plants and which, in some cases, 
if uncontrolled, would prove fatal to their existence. 
