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Several miles west of the Sebastian River we entered about 
as prolific a natural flower garden as I have seen in Florida, for 
here the pine-woods were a mass of flowering plants. 
The low or wet places were carpeted with creeping plants of 
the figwort family ([lysanthes grandiflora and Hydrotrida caro- 
liniana); creeping evening primroses (Ludwigia and Isnardia), 
and white and blue violets, all interspersed with our smallest 
lobelia (Lobelia Feayi), but one with corollas equalling those of 
Lobelia Kalmii and related species in our northern regions. 
In higher and drier places plants with vellow flowers often 
predominate. Thus there were three kinds of milkworts (Poly- 
gala ramosa, P. lutea, P. cymosa); Saint John’s-worts (ypericum 
opacum, HI. fasciculatum); Saint Peter’s-worts (Ascyrum stains, 
A. tetrapetalum); yellow asters (Chrysopsis graminifolia, C. 
gigantea) ; tickseed (Coreopsis Leavenworthti) ; beggar-ticks (Bidens 
coronata); heliotrope (Heliotropium Leavenworthii); sneezeweed 
(Helenium tenuifolium) ; helianthella (Helianthella angustifolia). 
The sole, or at least the only conspicuous monocotyledon 
represented, aside from numerous grasses and sedges, was the 
pine-stars (Oxytria albiflora), a bulbous plant of the lily family 
which grew in clumps nearly everywhere. 
Other white-flowered plants were: milkworts (Polygala Bald- 
winii), grass pinks (Sabbatia Elliottii), and beard-tongue (Pent- 
stemon multiflorus). 
areen also was prominent among the flowers, and it was 
especially represented by the milkweed family: green milkweed 
(Acerates foridana) and three related plants which are without 
“common” names, Podostigma pedicellata, Ananthirax connivens, 
Asclepiadora viridis. 
Other and at the same time often brilliant colors were fur- 
nished by different kinds of meadow-beauties (Rhexia cubensis, 
R. stricta, R. glabella), bush clover (Petalostemon carniuni), 
milkweed (Asclepias lanceolata), and the grass pink (Sabbatia 
grandiflora). 
Altogether the land is not very much elevated, as is evidenced 
by the large number of moisture-loving plants that occur along 
with those typical of drier soil. 
