XIV CONTENTS 



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IMPOKTANT CeOP AND SOIL PbOBLEMS 1'^'^ 



Pineapples I'^S 



CiTKUS Fkuits 178 



Bahama Hemp ok Sisal 180 



Conclusion 181 



VEGETATION OF THE BAHAMA ISLANDS. By William c! Cokee, Ph. D. 185 



Intbodtjction 185 



Sketch of Botanical Explorations in Bahamas 186 



Composition and Relationships of the Bahama Floba 190 



Distribution of the Bahama Flora 194 



Indigenous Trees and Shrubs Useful foe their Wood or Leaves 201 



Indigenous Medicinal Plants 206 



Indigenous Feuits 207 



Cultivated Fruits 209 



Trees Cultivated foe Ornament 212 



Botanical Formations in the Bahama Islands 214 



Plant Formations 216 



New Peovidence 216 



Sand-Strand Formation 216 



The Ipomea pes-caprse Association 217 



The Uniola-Tournef ortia Association 217 



Pithecolobium-Salmea Association 217 



Erithalls-Reynosia (or littoral Sand-coppice) Association 218 



The Silver Palm Association 218 



Fresh-marsh Formation 218 



Pine-baeeen Formations 219 



The Wet-barrens 219 



The Dry-barrens 219 



Coppice Formations 220 



Hlgh-copplce Formation 220 



Low-coppice Formation 221 



Salt Marsh Formation 222 



Rocky-shore Formation 223 



Mangrove Cay, Andros 22^ 



Green Cay 



Cuebent Settlement, Eleuthera „„,- 



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Spanish Wells, George Island 



Z^b 



Gregory Town, Eleuthera 



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