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nate enough to collect again in good quantity. Jupiter Inlet is 
at the southern end of the Indian River, which is a narrow body 
of tidal water running parallel to the coast and separated from 
the open ocean by a series of long narrow low-lying islands. 
Rock is exposed here occasionally along the coast and seaweeds 
have a better opportunity to gain a foothold than at St, Augus- 
tine, yet the colecing in situ here is unimportant in comparison 
with the “ wash-up”’ which drifts in through the inlet from the 
Fic. 2. Strand Flora, Anastasia Island, Florida. 
deeper water outside the bar. Practically all of the rarer kinds 
here are found in the detached masses which are swept in and 
out through the inlet by the changing tides. The best way of 
collecting was to stand in the water and review the procession of 
floating and suspended “ weeds” as they were carried past by the 
incoming tide. The real home of many of them could not be 
determined with the means at hand, but they probably grew on 
