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mountain peaks. Its flower has less color in the lowlan 
than it has in the mountains. Saint oes ci well fete 
with wild flowers st conspic one was a kind of 
tick-seed Cele which filled Packard vacant lots and 
streets with shimmering islands of bright yellow. The Mexican- 
poppy (Argemone intermedia), with its janes ae white flowers, 
was common on roadsides. A remarkable carpet of Saint 
i 
=e 
years ago this plant was enn nly ee South 
Carolina, and Mobile, Alabama. Can s dominan - 
where. Besides the carpet of Saint Augustine-grass, the giant 
live-oaks hickories, which are more ous th 
h s, had put forth their new fol . 
Saint Mary’s is an old town and pe Mee of catia im- 
rtance. It was founded several centuries ag he following 
description of it and of its inhabitants, oe as nee year 
“ An hour before Sun-set we got to the town a 'd St. Mary 
This was a Frontier and a Garrison Town; the Inhal biases are 
ith some Spanish Soldi a ne A sree 
Natives of these eae loath them 
n the Nig 
The present deni oa not use the Florida-moss for 
clothes, but do continue ae use in their domestic economy by 
feeding it to cows and chicken 
We searched the hammocks eon Saint Mary’s for a hop- 
trefoil Sse Baldwinii), said to have been collected at Saint 
ary’s a hundred years ago. We did not rediscover it, 
but did yee a dogwood (Svida) different from any species of 
that genus before collected 
1 Journal of The New York ape Garden 2: 
2 William Dickenson, in a book entitled, Saar ‘Ss tae peal nce, 
Man’s surest help oi eee nse, evidenced by the remarkable 
deliveranc mm. e devouring "Wave: es of the 
Sea, and 
also from fe eedel ee Jaws of the inhuman canibals of Florida,” 
page 107. 
