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West End on Lake Pontchartrain one passes through several 

 miles of these swamps, which are practically untouched except 

 for having had a few of the cypress trees cut out. At the time 

 of my visit they were full of water, but I was told that they 

 sometimes become dry enough to walk about in. 



The three most abundant and conspicuous plants in the cypress 

 swamps are Tillandsia usiicoidcs^ Taxoduiin disticlmm and Sabal 



FlGURK I. Scene in the pine-barrens near iSth St. and32d Ave., Gulfport, Miss., 

 within half a mile of the Gulf, looking west, Jan. 3, 1906. Piniis pahistris 

 Serenoa and Qiwrcus Catesbaei in dry pine-barrens in the foreground. Denser vege- 

 tation along a small stream at the right, including the three commonest trees of such 

 situations, Finns Elliottii, Magnolia glauca , and Ayssa biflora. 



