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flowers of the yellow jessamine (Gelsem?wm sempervirens), these fol- 
lowed by the white bloom of the Cherokee rose. 
The frequent vines of the bullace grape, Brunnichia, Cissus, and Smi- 
lax, which entwine bushes and trees, add to the intricacy of the maze 
of shrubbery on the low hammocks. In their deepest recesses Zp?- 
dendrum conopseun finds its home upon the limbs of old magnolias and 
hoary live oaks, being the only epiphytic orchid in the southeastern 
States outside of the narrow belt of the Antillean flora, skirting the 
coast of southern Florida and of the adjacent islands, the so-called 
Keys. Apteria setacea is strictly confined to the rich mold of the ham- 
mocks. ‘This leatless saprophyte, of a pale bluish color, grows in dense 
clusters, its numerous contorted roots deeply buried in the ground. 
It is also not rarely found in Florida and southeastern Georgia. On 
the shady borders of the hammock are found, flowering early in the 
spring, Vemophila microcalyx and Asarun arifoliun, followed by the 
Atamasco lily CAtamosco (Zephyranthes) atamascv) and hoary lupine 
(Lupinus villosus), and in the summer months by the following: 
Rhevia mariana.' Panicum proliferum inflatum. 
Rhexia lanceolata. Panicum rostratum.' 
Agrimonia incisa. Oplismenus hirtellus. 
Amorpha glabra. Eragrostis glomerata. 
Sanicula canadensis. Carex hirsuta.? 
Paspalum michauxianum. Carex caroliniana.' 
Paspalum ciliatifolium.} Carex debilis prolixa. 
Paspalum praecox. Melica mutica.! 
Panicum viscidum.* Panicum verrucosum.! 
Panicum gibbum. -Arundinaria tecta.! 
Panicum scabriusculum. 
We have here a mingling of mesophile and paludial types, all char- 
acteristic of the hammocks, the last three having also a wider range. 
Ferns are abundant in the damp shade. Dryopteris patens, a cosmo- 
politan species of subtropical and tropical regions, is confined in our 
territory almost exclusively to the hammocks. It is accompanied by 
the more frequent Dryopteris acrostichoides, Pteris aquilina (form near 
to caudata), Asplenium platynenron, Woodwardia angust/folia, and W. 
virginica; the last in more moist situations. Lycopodium cernuum is 
remarkable as one of the few types extending from the tropics to the 
coast of the Louisianian area which appears to be indigenous with us. 
Where the terrace merges into the flats of the plain, the border of the 
hammock becoming frequently wet, tall wool grasses (Erianthus brew/- 
barbis, FE. strictus, E. saccharoides), coarse beard grass (Andropogon 
glomeratus), and royal fern (Osmunda regalis) form conspicuous features 
in the aspect of the vegetation. 
Pine meadows.—Approaching the seashore the terrace of loamy 
silt passes imperceptibly into the flats of the purely siliceous coast 
sands, through which the sluggish water courses, subject to the ebb 
1 Found also in the Carolinian area. 
