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had previously been to the west side of the lake, and thought the 

 woods on the other side looked interesting from the distance; 

 so at his suggestion we went around to the northeast side to 

 see what we could find. 



Lake Miccosukee is roughly triangular in shape, with an area 

 of about eight square miles, and is all in Jefiferson County, but 

 its western shore forms part of the boundary between the 

 counties of Leon and Jefferson. The road we followed ended 

 at a duck-hunter's boat-house known as Dogwood Landing, on 

 the northeast side of the lake about two miles from its north- 

 west corner, and five miles south of the Georgia line. This 

 lake, like others of its class, is shallow enough for maiden cane 

 (Panicum hemitomon), various Nymphaeaceae, and other 

 aquatics to grow nearly all over it, and at times it is almost 

 completely dry.* The shallowness of the water, combined 

 with the vegetation, checks wave action and prevents the forma- 

 tion of sandy beaches. 



At the point where we first stopped the shore is low, miry, 

 and ill-defined, and bordered by scattered cypress trees, Tax- 

 odium distichum, which had not been reported from this region 

 before. t With the cypress, or a little farther back from the 

 water but still in miry ground, are the following plants, besides 

 others not easily identifiable when leafless. (They are ar- 

 ranged in approximate order of abundance.) 



Trees: — Acer ruhrum, Liquidambar, Diospyros, Quercus nigra, 

 Q. Michauxii, Melia Azedarach (introduced), Celtis sp., Salix 

 nigra. 



Shrubs: — Cephalanthus, Cyrilla racemiflora, Styrax Americana. 



Woody vines: — Tecoma radicans, Ampelopsis arborea, Rhus 

 radicans, Parthenocissus, Vitis aestivalis (?), Bignonia crucigera. 



Herbs: — Tillandsia usneoides, Hibiscus sp., Pontederia. 



A little farther southeast along the lake shore, say half a mile 

 from Dogwood Landing, the land rises more steeply from the 

 lake, forming a low bluff or slope perhaps twenty feet high, with 

 a horizontal distance of lOO to 200 feet from the top of the 

 bluff to the edge of the water; and that continues for another 



* See E. H. Sellards, Ann. Rep. Fla. Geol. Surv. 3: 58-61, pi. 6: 6: 130-133, 

 137; 9: 124-127, pi. 8. 



t In Lake Lafayette there is an abundance of cypress, but it seems to be 

 all T. imbricarium. 



