PRELIMINARY REPORT ON PEAT. 
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EAST COAST LAGOONS. 
(fig. 25) 
Some of the lagoons of the east coast strip, when far enough 
from inlets to have fresh water all the time, must contain con¬ 
siderable peat. The only fresh lagoon of this kind which I have 
examined (and that only superficially) is Clear Lake, about a mile 
west of West Palm Beach. The following herbs were noticed in 
it on April 13, 1909. 
Fig. 25.—Clear Lake, a fresh water lagoon about a mile west of West 
Palm Beach, looking south from Okeechobee Road. April *3, 1909. 
Cladium effusum (saw-grass) 
Pontederia cordata (wampee) 
Sagittaria lancifclia 
Castalia odorata ^ white water-lily) 
Panicum hemitomon (maiden cane) 
Rhynchospora corniculata 
Nymphaea macropliyllci (bonnets) 
Limnanthemum aquaticum 
Eleocharis cellulosa (round grass) 
Crinum Americanum 
No examination was made of the peat. 
