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the outlying West Summerland Keys, are very different from 
the upper keys, or those lying to the northeast of the Bahia 
Honda channel. In the first place their axis is at a different 
angle and they are very irregular in shape. Then too, the 
vegetation, with the natural exception of the common coastal 
flora, consists largely of pine trees and palms, either growing 
separately or intimately intermixed, and also much of the her- 
Fic. 30. A saw grassswamp or miniature Everglade on Big Pine Key. e 
low areas are bordered by a growth of pine trees, palms and shrubs just as the 
land. 
Everglades are on the mainland 
baceous and shrubby vegetation characteristic of the pinelands 
of the Everglade Keys on the mainland southwest of Miami. 
he first thing to attract our attention on the keys was the 
dead or apparently dead woody vegetation. Skeletons of hard- 
wood shrubs and trees were everywhere. Forests had the appear- 
ance of having been fire-swept. In the open places drift wood 
was piled high and heaps of dead leaves were everywhere. 
These scenes were examples of the penetrating effect of the 
