PRELIMINARY REPORT ON PEAT. 
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LOCALITIES OF SPECIAL INTEREST. 
LAKE PANASOFFKEE AND VICINITY. 
Around Lake Panasoffkee, in Sumter County, there are exten¬ 
sive deposits of peat of considerable depth, which ought to be valu¬ 
able. The water of this lake, unlike other Florida lakes, comes 
mostly from limestone springs, and is quite clear; and the vegeta¬ 
tion around it differs considerably from that around the large lakes 
of the lake region. 
The deeper parts of the deposit, next to the open water, are 
covered with marsh vegetation, as usual, and between the marsh and 
the dry land is a large dense cypress swamp, traversed by several 
sluggish channels or bayous. The following plants were noted 
within a mile or so of Panasoffkee station, at the south end of the 
lake, on April 22 and 23, 1909, and May 16, 1910. 
LARGE TREES 
Taxodium distichum (cypress) 
MEDIUM-SIZED TREES. 
Fraxinus profunda? (ash) 
Acer rubrum (maple) 
Fraxinus Carolinianaf (ash) 
SMALL TREES 
Salix lengipes? (willow) 
SHRUBS AND VINES 
Cornus stricta? 
I tea Virginica 
Berchemia scandens (rattan vine) 
Ampelopsis arborea 
Rhus radicans (poison ivy) 
Aster Carolinianus 
Cephalanthus occidentalis (button 
bush) 
Sambucus Canadensis (elder) (in¬ 
troduced?) 
HERBS 
Cladium effusum (saw-grass) 
Tillandsia usneoides (Spanish moss) 
Hydrocotyle Bonariensis? 
Cicuta Curtissii 
Rhynchospora ccrniculata 
Eupatorium serotinum 
Sagittaria lancifolia 
Piaropus crassipes (water hyacinth) 
Saiirurus cernuus 
Osmunda regalis (a fern) 
Pontederia cor data (wampee) 
Echincchloa Crus-gallif (a grass) 
Carex stipata 
Scirpus validus (bulrush) 
Carex alata 
Rumex verticillatus 
Nymphaea macrophylla (bonnets) 
Carex comosa 
Erechthiies hieracifolia (intro¬ 
duced) 
(introduced) 
Pistia spathulata (water lettuce) 
(floating in bayous^ 
Hydrocotyle verticillata 
