plant in question and the only individual known to exist in a 
wild state, except another single plant in Delaware, is a shrub 
with underground stems occupying about eight acres and esti- 
mated to be over one thousand years old. A study of the shrubs 
with subterranean stems in the southern coastal plain and adja- 
cent regions holds fascinating possibilities. 
The most conspicuous herb of the open places in the hammock 
was a wild vervain (Verbena maritima) which was first collected 
at Cape Florida nearly a century ago. It was in full flower, and 
the numerous flower-clusters often eclipsed all other associated 
vegetation and sometimes formed extensive fields of blue. 
Although the conditions were apparently quite favorable, the 
more interesting and rare plants of the Miami dunes which lie 
only sixty-odd miles south of Palm Beach were not in evidence. 
The last local excursion was made to the crest of the southern 
extremity of the water-shed of the Saint John’s River. The 
term is here used technically, as no elevation is perceptible to 
the eye. This locality lies about one hundred and fifty miles 
north of Miami and a few miles inland. The region is uninhab- 
ited except for an apparently wholly out-of-place settlement called 
Felsmere, which in itself is rather embryonic. This watershed 
is indicated not only by the Saint John’s, flowing northward on 
its long journey to the sea, but by the Onothohatchee and other 
small streams flowing southward into Lake Okeechobee; also by 
two local short rivers—the Sebastian flowing north for a dozen 
miles or so into the Atlantic and the Saint Lucie flowing south 
from near the source of the Sebastian, and also emptying into 
the Atlantic. However, the country is so flat that the water 
seems loath to flow at all. 
Going westward from the vicinity of the settlement of Sebas- 
tian, after crossing the coastal range of stationary dunes, one 
comes out into the East Florida flatwoods, which geographical 
division, including various subdivisions, extends from Jackson- 
ville southward. Beyond the Sebastian River streams are 
scarce or altogether wanting. There are both wet and dry 
pinelands, and the water apparently drains away north and 
south into lakes or lakelets which in turn give rise to streams 
which often connect and drain chains of lakes. 
