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Upon returning to Jacksonville we took the train for New 
York. Some rain fell, perhaps the last for the spring and the 
summer, for an almost Hinprecedented es during ah re- 
mainder of the year afflict te tates, and wa 
plants were rampant where enough water had sie 
to temporarily support them. 
In the low pnewoods two plants with spiked flowers 
rung up: the one, a yellow-flowered colic-root (Aletris lutea) 
with spirally eee flowers; the other, a white-flowered 
e river-swamps were a riot of gree Th s shades of 
n were caused not only directly by the variation in the 
leaves, but by the placing of the leaves eafage as 
in the higher ae S was a SS ragwort (Senecio Smallii), 
Gesaalee all of which were oe flowering in peninsular Florida 
abr onths earlie 
e various kinds of pine trees which had put forth their 
new erect branches, often to the length of six or eight inches, 
um 
places similar reforestation was being accom lished, naturally, 
but a oe ae . iene evidently much depleted 
b ing t w grown sufficiently large 
to ae Tle damaged iY ‘sre 
All 
in the Florida peninsula. The drought already lee to had 
made much more tinder than usual and fires were very numerous. 
Every day we passed through recently burned areas or through 
fires raging in prairies, in pinelands, and in hammocks. Each 
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