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(Micromeria Brownii) with numerous pale lavender flowers. 
The trees were hung with vines of the trumpet creeper bearing 
numerous festoons of the bright-red trumpet-shaped flowers as 
well as clusters of the long persistent cigar-shaped pods. 
A short distance bevond the Saint John’s River we left the 
Pliocene behind and passed on to the Oligocene deposits, which 
comprise a rolling country mostly forested with the yellow pine 
(Pinus palustris) and with a scattering of scrubby hammock in 
the lower parts. 
We went as far as Lake Eustis, on whose shores the spiderwort 
(Tradescantia reflexa) was growing in banked clumps. A showy- 
flowered and exceedingly conspicuous ruellia (Ruellia parviflora) 
was also there in abundance. 
In the scrubby hammock were colonies of prickly pears (Opun- 
Ha austrina), this locality being the northernmost limit of the 
range of this species—a range which extends as far south as 
Cape Sable. Growing with it was the scrub palmetto (Sadal 
Etonia), a close relative of the cabbage tree, but with a short 
curved stem that never rises above the surface of the ground 
and bears edible fruits several times the size of those of the cab= 
bage-tree, with a flavor resembling that of the date. 
We had hoped to he able to get into the Lake George region 
from Eustis, but lack of time and proper roads and trails denied 
us this portion of the excursion.! After returning to Daytona 
over nearly the same route by which we had come, we went to 
the active dunes to collect living specimens of prickly pears 
(Opuntia) and the so-called coontie (Zamia). We found fine 
specimens of both of these, and they are now growing at Buena 
Vista, thus offering an opportunity for comparison with related 
species native in southern Florida. In addition to the above- 
mentioned plants and others of more or less interest, we found 
the Indian sweet clover (J/elilotus indica) and a commonly 
cultivated blanket-flower (Gaillardia) extensively naturalized 
in the hammock. 
On the way from Daytona to Miami we made collections of 
iA special excursion to that region was made in December, tg18. It will be 
described in a subsequent number of this Journal. 
