JOURNAL OF THE New YorK BoTANICAL GARDEN PLatE CXXX 
Cruiser ‘‘Lida’’ at anchor off the eastern shore of Lake Okeechobee. Sand-ridge 
covered a a dense hammock made up mostly of bald-cypress and cabbage-palm or 
palmetto trees in the background. Behind the ridge and hammock lies a cypress 
swamp. 
astern shore of ]-ake Okeechobee. mea - ies sand inthe foreground. Ridge 
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with hammock behind. The trees along accustomed to thrive both 
in and out of the water. At the high-water mark the lar be tree tanks she sup- 
mblage of plants not usually epiphytic ropi- 
port an sual 
cal ae ea es and other herbaceous plants, and vines. 
