lots of the town are the live-oak (Quercus virginiana) and the 

 cabbage-tree (Sabal Palmetto). Among the more abundant 

 epiphytes which grow particularly on the oak are the Spanish 

 moss (Dendropogon usneoides) and the little orchid, Auliza 



quite simple flowers, the latter with complex flowers, have sepals 

 and petals of the same peculiar shade of green. Immediately 

 south of Daytona, shell-middens, the refuse heaps left by the 

 aborigines, became evident and on these, two additional kinds 

 of trees attract the eye. They are the hickory {Hicoria floridana) 

 and a red-cedar which has been included in Sabina barbadensis, 



insular species bears depressed cones, while the Florida plant has 



About ten miles south of Daytona we came upon one of the 



far as known at that time the only endemic wild-pepper plant of 

 the continental United States. 1 



This plant is a winter bloomer and was at the height of its 

 flowering season. It was the most conspicuous herbaceous 

 plant on the floor of the hammock, covering the shell-middens 



on shell-mounds at the mouth of the Saint Johns River, where 

 the species was discovered about a century ago, and on apparent 

 refuse heaps, in the mouths of caves, on the western side of Lake 

 Tsala Apopka on the opposite side of the peninsula. In other 



