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(Taxodium ascendens). In some places the cypress trees are so 
close together that one cannot see beyond the edge of the stand; 
at other places the trees are widely separated and are so evenly 
paced as to give the impression of having been set out at defi- 
nite distances from each other 
etween the Ole lsacechss Slough and Fort Shakleford is 
Rocky Lake. e waters of this lake are contained in a rock 
ibaa view: een ae country is as nearly flat as 
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and ca bande e woody vegetation consists only of cypress- 
heads, cen eee and hardwood hammocks, pa 
turn in the trail p t and pleasi jews. We sp 
pleasing v. en 
sufficient time in the vicinity of the mission to collect all : 
plants then in flower or in fruit, and then retraced our course to 
the Okaloacoochee Slough. Thence we changed our course e and 
essentially the same course by which we had come, and returned 
to Miami. 
The last day available for field-work was devoted to Lower 
Matecumbe Key. We were able to do this through the kind- 
ness of Mr. E. L. Kline, superintendent of the Florida East Coast 
Railway, who ordered the night train to be stopped on the key 
so we could get off and thus spend the following day collecting 
there. Our main object on Lower Matecumbe Key was to col- 
lect flowers of a new cactus, since described as Cephalocereus 
* Journal of The New York Botanical Garden 18: 199-203. 1917. 
