PRELIMINARY REPORT ON PEAT. 
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plants of the water-lily family, Castalia odorata and Nymphaea 
macrophylla, can usually be found. These may grow in water only 
a few inches deep, but in that case they are usually stunted. In 
slightly shallower water the following herbs are characteristic: 
Pontederia cor data (wampee), Sagittaria lancifolia , Panicum 
hemitomon (maiden cane). 
A little nearer the shore, where the peat is exposed at low water, 
but still always wet, small trees of Magnolia glauca (bay), or such 
shrubs as Hypericum fasciculatum *and Cephalanthus (button 
bush), are often found, but the vegetation is usually all herbaceous, 
as follows: 
Sagittaria lancifolia 
Panicum hemitomon (maiden 
cane) 
Eriocaulon compressum 
Pontederia cor data (wampee) 
Fuirena scirpoidea 
Cyperus strigosus? 
Xyris sp. 
Lachnocaulon sp. 
Erianthus sp. (a tall grass) 
Cladium effusum (saw-grass) 
Dr os era capillarisf 
Hydrocotyle umhellata 
Gyro theca tinctcria (paint-root) 
Amphicarpum sp,? (a grass) 
Lycopodium Chapmani 
Centella repanda 
A little higher up, on sandy shores which are inundated at high 
water, but exposed most of the time, may be found the following. 
(In this list and the one just above, it has not been possible to ar¬ 
range the species as strictly in order of abundance as elsewhere 
in this report, on account of the difficulty of determining the limits 
of the zones.) 
TREES 
(all of them rare) 
Pinus Elliottii (slash pine) 
Ilex Cassine (swamp holly) 
Nyssa biflora (black gum) 
Magnolia glauca (bay) 
Gordonia Lasianthus (bay) 
Taxodium imbricarium (pond cy¬ 
press) 
SHRUBS 
(not common) 
Myrica cerifera (myrtle) 
Hypericum fasciculatum 
Hypericum myrtifolium 
Hypericum opacum 
