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FLORIDA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY—THIRD ANNUAL REPORT. 
HERBS 
Drc'sera capillaris 
Spartina Bakeri (a large grass) 
Juncus scirpoides compositus (a 
rush) 
Lachnocaulon glabrum 
Lachnocaulon Beyriehianum 
Ludwigia suffruticosa 
Eleocharis Baldwinii 
Utricularia subulata 
Xyris Baldwiniana 
Xyris sp. 
Hydrocotyle sp. 
Anchistea Virginica (a fern) 
Solidago fistulosa (golden-rod) 
Anastrophus paspaloides (a grass) 
Eriocaulon decangulare 
Pluchea bifrons 
Sabbatia grandiflora 
Panicum erectifolium? (a grass) 
Rhynchospora fusca 
Rhynchospora axillaris 
Rhynchospora fascicular is? 
Bartonia verna 
Centella repanda 
Triadenunt Virginicum 
At the very limit of high water are sometimes found Pinus 
Caribaea or small saplings of Pinus palustris (long-leaf pine), a few 
shrubs, such as Pieris nitida] Serenoa (saw-palmetto), Ilex glabra 
(gallberry), Vaccinium sp. (huckleberry) and Cyrilla sp. (tyty), 
and one or more of the following herbs: Spartina Bakeri„ Aris- 
tida spiciformis , Juncus scirpoides compositus y and Rhynchospora 
fusca. Often this sort of vegetation makes a belt of low scrub a 
good many yards in width, in which Pinus Caribaea, Serenoa, 
Pieris nitidaIlex glabra and Aristida spiciformis are the prevail¬ 
ing plants. But where the shores are comparatively steep there is 
usually a well-marked fringe of saw-palmetto just above high-water 
mark (see plate 24.1), and immediately back of it the characteris¬ 
tic high pine land with long-leaf pine, turkey oaks, wire-grass, etc. 
The plants of the various zones above described all tend to 
migrate toward the center of the lake as the peat accumulates, and 
when the lake is completely filled, and thus converted into a peat 
prairie (which will be described later), some of the same species 
which grew on sandy shores are found well out toward the middle, 
on several feet of peat. 
The peat around small lakes which are not completely filled is 
usually too shallow to be of much importance, but it is of pretty 
good quality, being almost free from mineral matter and woody 
roots and stems. Analyses of this kind of peat will be found in the 
table under localities 12, 13 and 22. 
