258 FLORIDA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY—THIRD ANNUAL REPORT. 
NON-ALLUVIAL SWAMPS OF THE LAKE REGION. 
Scattered all through the lake region are many non-alluvial 
swamps—or bays, as they might be called—usually located between 
high pine land and some of the lake marshes which will be described 
later. Most of their water probably seeps out the sandy hills of the 
pine land. The vegetation of such places is about as follows: 
TREES 
Magnolia glauca (bay) Ilex Cassine (swamp holly) 
Gordonia Lasianthus (bay) Pinus ElliptHi (slash pine) 
Acer rubrum (maple) Per sea pubescens (red bay) 
SHRUBS AND VINES 
Myrica cerifera (myrtle) Cephalanthus occidentalis (button 
Smilax laurifolia (bamboo vine) bush). 
PieGs nitida Rhus radicans (poison ivy) 
I tea Virginica 
HERBS 
Blechnum serrulatum (a fern) 
Osmunda cinnamomea (a fern) 
Osmunda re.aalis (a fern) 
Anchistea Virginica (a fern) 
Saururus cernuus 
Lorinseria areolata (a fern) 
Tillandsia usneoides (Spanish moss) 
Dryopteris unita (a fern) 
MOSSES, ETC. 
Sphagnum sps. Pallavicinia Lyellii 
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It is interesting to note that all but one of the trees and half the 
shrubs in this list are evergreen, and all but two of the herbs are 
ferns. I have found somewhat similar conditions in certain 
swamps in South Georgia* whose water the sun never shines on 
from the time it falls as rain until after it leaves the swamp. 
The peat in these swamps is often several feet deep, but as they 
are located in a region where there is plenty of treeless peat, much 
more easily worked, they are not likely to be of much importance 
in the near future, and I have taken no samples from them. 
NON-ALLUVIAL SWAMPS OF DE SOTO COUNTY. 
(FIG. 21) 
From half a mile to a mile east of the Peace River, on land 
gently sloping toward it, for several miles north and south of Ar¬ 
cadia, one can see from either the A. C. L. or the C. Hi. & N. R. R. 
(for these two railroads are almost in sight of each other for 
*See Annals N. Y. Acad. Sci. 17: 93-95. 1906. 
