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some rolling, some nearly level. Their grassy covering is very 
perfect, an extensive flora of shrubbery and herbaceous plants 
constituting more than half of the th. The shrubs belong 
very largely to the mim family, many of them being true 
imosa predominant flowering plants are Vernonias and 
upatoriums, the number of species of both ich is truly 
astonishing, as is the e iation in their h ome in 
ot a have solitary terminal heads of great size, so that 
the myriad flowered forms. Most of the Eupatoriums have 
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a elated genera grow among them, but there is a 
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Gnaphaliums and Achyroclines are common. There is here a 
a peers neon o the pumarant nara: 
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that will inevease in complexity as we go toward the Atlantic, 
2,000 miles away. Her eee is a wealth of aquatics, which 
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I cannot even ey grow erect in the margins, 
so ay re so tall and strong as to make approach to the 
fe) water exceedingly di lt. The canoe cannot be pushed 
among them; they are too dense for swimming and depth of 
mud and water prevent din, Collecting here is truly 
perilous. Eve e tive savages d ese lagoon 
Poisonous serpents , but fortunately are sluggis li- 
ators and crocodiles often upset bo: t infrequentl 
tack human beings, as I have myself seen them do with great 
ferocity. The carib-fish is serie a greater 
without ae caioa . mee attacks = pee onous insect 
easily succu 
The giant a Viciona. is common. The natives say 
that the flower opens three times, first shite: then pink, then 
deep red would gladly have made my principal collections 
in this prairie-forest-swamp region, but fever is not t 
avoided a uch of my work was performed with great suffer- 
ing, and for a time with little hope of final escape. In spite of 
