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half mile if not farther. From the top of the bluff cultivated 

 and abandoned fields and groves of second-growth pines (mostly 

 Finns echinata) extend northward for an indefinite distance; 

 but the slopes are still wooded with what appears to be virgin 

 forest, except for an occasional chinaberry tree (Melia), which 

 sometimes invades rich woods in the South much as Prunus 

 Avium does around New York. 



Looking southeast along shore of Lake Miccosukee near Dogwood Landing, 

 showing Pontederia and Panicum hemitomon in foreground, Taxodium distichum 

 at left, and wooded bluff in distance. 4:03 p.m., Feb. 18, 1924. 



Although the vegetation of the lake shores and bluff includes 

 several species that are rather fond of limestone (such as Taxodi- 

 um distichum, Ampelopsis arbor ea, Quercus Schneckii, Tilia, 

 Acer Floridanum, Ulmus fulva, Cercis, Adelia ligustrina, Ptelea, 

 Arisaema Dracontium, Tovara, Spigelia, Polymnia Uvedalia, and 

 Eupatorium incarnatum), no rock of any kind was seen on the 

 northeast side of the lake, and several borings made on the 

 wooded slope with a three-foot auger by Dr. Kurz revealed 



