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ularia), ground orchids (Bletia), and the showy purple-flowered 
Angelonia of the snapdragon family. 
Slightly undulating pinelands come next as we proceed _north- 
ward, in which grow many characteristic herbaceous plants and 
FIG. 33. Bay of Mariel. 
shrubs. A few miles west of the calzada lie the large fresh-water 
lakes at Laguna Santa Maria, nearly surrounded by pine barrens, 
the soil of which is a fine white sand, and this locality proved 
one of the richest collecting grounds visited during our trip. 
A tall wand-like white-flowered ground orchid, and two different 
green-flowered ones were of much botanical interest; several 
kinds of yellow-eyed grasses (Xyris), a white-flowered bladderwort 
in the water and a large yellow-flowered one on the borders of 
the lagoons, with a purple-flowered species of the Burmannia 
family, clubmosses, a Sabbatia, with large white flowers and many 
other species were collected, both the soil and the flora being 
similar to those of pine-barren areas in southern New Jersey. 
