PRELIMINARY REPORT ON PEAT. 
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Aronia arbutifolia (L.) Pers. 
Sandy bogs, bays and non-alluvial swamps of various kinds, but rarely on 
good deep peat. Extends as far south as DeSoto County, but is not very 
common in Florida. 
Widely distributed in Eastern North America, mostly in the glaciated region 
and coastal plain. 
Rosa Carolina L.? Wild Rose. 
Chiefly in and around calcareous swamps; hardly on good peat. Franklin. 
Wakulla, Duval and Levy Counties. 
Said to range northward to Quebec and Minnesota. 
HAMAMELIDACEAE. Witch-Hazel Family. 
Liquidambar Styraciflua L. Sweet Gum.* (Plate 19.1.) 
In various habitats, but preferring hammocks, especially low hammocks. 
Grows also on some well-wooded and essentially mature peat deposits, especially 
where the soil or water is a little calcareous. In this it resembles Parthenocis- 
sus, Berchemia, and several other plants already mentioned. Common as far 
south as DeSoto County. 
Connecticut to Mexico, mostly less than 1000 feet above sea-level. 
SAXIFRAGACEAE. 
Itea Virginica L. 
In moderately rich or calcareous swamps; sometimes on a few feet of peat. 
Frequent from DeSoto County northward. 
New Jersey to Arkansas, most abundant in the coastal plain. 
Decumaria barbara L. 
In wet woods and springy swamps, often where the water is calcareous. 
(Outside of Florida it seems to have no use for lime, though.) Frequent north 
of latitude 30°. 
Virginia to Louisiana, outside of the mountains. 
.SARRACENIACEAE. Pitcher-Plant Family. 
Sarracenia Drummondii Croomf 
Common in sandy bogs, etc., from Liberty and Franklin Counties westward. 
Reaches its best development in the estuarine swamps of Santa Rosa County, 
where it grows nearly four feet tall. 
Southwest Georgia to southeastern Mississippi. 
*Also called “red gum” by government foresters and Mississippi valley lum¬ 
bermen, especially in recent years. 
fThis handsome and striking plant was described about three-quarters of a 
century ago by Hardy B. Croom, a noted botanist of that day, who was also the 
discoverer of two evergreen trees; Torreya (now Tumion) taxifolia. and Taxus 
Floridana, which grow wild only on the east side of the Apalachicola River, as 
far as known, and of several other rare southern plants. His home was in 
eastern North Carolina, but he spent a considerable part of the last years of 
his life near Tallahassee, where one of his brothers had a plantation. An appro¬ 
priately inscribed monument in front of the Episcopal church in Tallahassee 
testifies to the high esteem in which he was held by his neighbors in Florida. 
