| 
| 
| 
| 
| 
| 
| 
| 
| 
| 
| 
| 
| 
| 
FREE INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE 
VEGETATION OF SOUTH FLORIDA 
145 
drum tampense Lindl. (=Encyclia tampense (Lindl.) Small) grew in similar 
positions in full flower (Plate VIII, Fig. 2). Beneath the trees grew Sabbatia 
dodecandra (L.) B. S. P. with large pink flowers about 5 centimeters (2 inches) 
in diameter on long flexuous stems. The cypress trees of this head were not 
festooned with Spanish-moss, but the waxberry, Myrica (Cerothamnus) ceriferus 
(L.) Small, was an abundant shrub beneath the cypress trees. About half a 
dozen of these heads were noted in the country between Ft. Myers and Six- 
Mile Cypress. 
Scattered Cypress along Rivers and Ponds.—Along the Miami and New 
rivers large cypress trees are found growing as isolated specimens, or in small 
groves. The most southern group of cypress trees noted at a point between 
Larkin and Kendall comprised about 3 to 4 trees. All along the Caloosahat- 
chee River, isolated cypress trees grow. The localities on this river where they 
were noted is as follows: 
Atlantic Coast Line R. R. (draw- 
bridge). 
Cypress Head with trees draped with 
Spanish-moss. 
U pcohall. 
Occasional Cypress trees. 
Idalia. 
Cypress Head on left bank. 
Oak Bluff. 
Cypress occasional. 
Rialto. 
Cypress occasional. 
Owanita. 
Tall cypress at river edge. 
Alva. 
Cypress. 
Floweree. 
Cypress loaded with epiphytes. 
Bonnet Lake. 
Cypress mingles with the pine forest 
back of the hammock strip to the 
left ascending the river. 
Coffee Mill Hammock. 
Dense stand of cypress blending with 
frontal hammock and pine forest. 
Lake Okeechobee. 
Single cypress, as a landmark or 
range tree, situated at the opening 
of the canal into Lake Okeechobee. 
In the custard-apple forest, which 
characterizes the southwest and south 
shores of Lake Okeechobee, tall 
cypress trees grow above the general 
level of the dominant custard-apple 
trees, Annona glabra L. 
Cypress Scrub.—The only information the writer has of this type of cypress 
growth, if it merits recognition as a distinct association of physiognomic differ- 
ence, is in a letter from the post-mistress at Immokalee in reply to one directed 
to that place for information about the Okaloacoochee Slough. Southwest of 
Immokalee, the Everglades form a narrow embayment, which joins on to the 
