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robins calling, and new voices reveal the presence of the brown-headed 

 nuthatch with its chatter, and the red-cockaded woodpecker with its 

 hoarse call. Among the pines where these birds are feeding, the pine 

 warblers are numerous and seated on one of the branches we discover 

 a Florida barred owl that, on our homeward way, we heard calling to 

 another male miles and miles away, the one deep toned and awesome, 

 the other like an echo. At many points the showy red-bellied wood- 

 pecker is calling lustily and jerking up a tree; at another, the pileated 

 is first recognized by its call and then quickly discovered, and at still 

 another place, one of our party shows us where he had seen the rare 

 ivory-billed woodpecker a few days before. All along the wayside the 

 marshes are dotted with the spring helenium, purple, yellow and pale 

 lilac butterworts, Pinguicula elatior, P. lutea, P. pumila, the loveliest 

 to my mind of all the flowers that I found in Florida, bright orange 

 "bachelor buttons," Polygala lutea and more rarely by that lovely 

 Amaryllis, the purple tinted white Atamasco lily,. Atamasco Atamasco. 



At one alluring spot I asked to stop and upon getting out dis- 

 covered a nodding pink flower with clustered leaves at its base which 

 are covered with white down beneath. It proved to be Chaptalia 

 tomentosa and a field botanist of DeLand told me it was the one spot 

 where he had discovered it, and added: "How did you do it?" 



At intervals partly dried-up ponds or lakes are to be seen with 

 numberless button-like white heads of the pipewort, Eriocaulon com- 

 pressum, shining above the water, and growing in great masses is the 

 showy, feathery-foliaged St. John's wort, Hypericum myrtifolium, with 

 its bushy flat tops literally covered with hundreds of bright yellow 

 flower clusters. 



Circling around and farther back in soil that has once been sub- 

 merged are dainty bartonias, Bartonia verna, with their tiny white 

 blossoms on leafless stems, as well as the minute bladderworts, Utri- 

 cularia cornuta, with their perfect spurred jewels. Then, like a yellow 

 fringe, come the showy sarracenias {minor) their trumpet leaves 

 spotted with white and veined with green and red, while interspersed 

 with them are the brilliant calopogons, {tu'berosum) , and rose pogonias, 

 (ophioglossoides, magenta-pink sabbatias, (gracilis), and the star-like 

 Hypoxia juncea. In some favored spots all these lovely blossoms are 

 made more so by contrast with the white-topped sedge, Dichromena 

 colorata, growing freely among them. 



Shining out like slender columns from oak and palmetto scrub rise 

 the custard apples — papaws, Asimina speciosa, with their showy, leathery, 



