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stream is well named, and, if it were not for the bar at its mouth 
and the shallow water on the adjacent reef, it would afford an 
excellent anchorage for boats of all sizes used in that region. 
For several miles inland from the mouth, the banks are high, 
especially those on the north side, where they are usually pre- 
cipitous, and, despite the absence of soil, they harbor a luxuriant 
growth of the common coppice plants and the less frequent and 
at the same time striking species of nearly leafless euphorbia- 
ceous plants and shrubby and arboreous cactuses. The epiphytic 
flora there is represented mainly by speciesof Epidendrum and 
Vanilla. Toward the head-waters of the creek, the pineyard 
and marl occupy the vast level stretches. In the former, be- 
tween its scattered pine trees, are showy masses of ironweeds and 
shrubs of the myrtle, dogbane, trumpet-creeper, madder, and 
sunflower families, supporting vines of the wild yam and various 
morning-glories. The shallow limestone sinks in the pine woods 
furnish a few terrestrial orchids; while the surrounding marl, 
for the most part barren, is dotted with stunted mangroves and 
other saline bushes. The most interesting shrub here is Bucida 
spinosa, which, tall and erect in most localities, grows perfectly 
prostrate, the branches spreading radially on the groun T 
most distant portions of the marl reached by us support three 
common Floridian herbs of the orchid and bladderwort families, 
namely Limodorum Simpsonii, Pinguicula pumila and Utricu- 
laria subulata. 
At Smith Hill the rock ridge seems less rugged than farther 
down the coast. On its densely wooded slopes, we first met with 
small plants of Ibidium lucayanum, growing in deep humus, and 
Oncidium variegatum growing on the neighboring shrubs; how- 
ever, both these plants are scarce. The marl at this point, and 
the fresh water lagoons to which we penetrated, yielded the same 
plants we encountered at the head-waters of Deep Creek. The 
Crow Hill region, which is situated between the ocean and the 
eastern end of South Bight, exhibited greater diversity in both 
the structure of the land and the vegetation than did the former 
locality. In addition to the rolling hills of the rock ridge, there 
are flat, desert-like expanses of rock with small and large lime- 
