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FLORIDA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY—THIRD ANNUAL REPORT. 
Polygala lutea L. 
Frequent in sandy bogs of various kinds, in the northern half of the State. 
Also in several feet of peat in an open tyty bay (or prairie) in the West Florida 
coast region near Carrabelle. 
Long Island to Louisiana, in the coastal plain. 
LEGUMIN03AE. Pea Family. 
Vicia acutifolia Ell. Vetch. 
irar ; 1 
In and near low hammocks in the Gulf hammock region (Taylor Co.), and 
on peat on Hog Island at the mouth of the Suwannee River, Levy Co. 
Coastal plain of Georgia, Florida and Alabama, mostly near the coast. 
Aeschynomene pratensis Small 
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In sloughs, etc., at the southern edge of the Everglades and in the coast 
prairie near by, on impure peat or marl* 
Not known elsewhere. 
Amorpha fruticosa L. 
On river-banks and in more or less calcareous swamps. Washington, Frank¬ 
lin, Suwannee, Duval, Putnam and Orange Counties. On fairly good peat in the 
St. Johns River swamp near Palatka. 
Widely but irregularly distributed in the Eastern United States. 
Glottidium vesicarium (Jacq.) Mohr. Coffee Bean. Bladder-bean. 
A weed in rather rich damp soil, occasionally on peat that has been partly 
drained or trampled over by cattle. Seems to be commonest in the Middle 
Florida hammock belt. 
South Carolina to Texas, in the coastal plain. Probably introduced from the 
tropics. 
Dalbergia Brownei (Pers.) Kuntze. (Ecastophyllum Broivnei Pers.) 
In a mangrove swamp near Lemon City, Dade Co. Also in Brickell’s’ Ham¬ 
mock, near Miami, and doubtless elsewhere in that vicinity. 
South Florida and tropical America. 
ROSA'CEAE. Rose Family. 
Chrysobalanus Icaco L. Cocoa Plum. 
A large shrub very characteristic of various kinds of swampy places in 
South Florida, such as the clumps of small trees in the southern edge of the 
Everglades and the adjacent coast prairie, along streams running out of the 
Everglades, etc. I have not seen it farther north than Palm Beach County. 
South Florida, tropical America and western Africa. 
