PRELIMINARY REPORT ON PEAT. 
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Cyperus virens Mx. 
Estuarine swamps or marshes of the Escambia and Apalachicola Rivers. 
North Carolina to Central America. 
GRAMINEAE. Grass Family. 
Phragmites communis Trin. Reed-grass. 
In large fresh marshes, such as the Everglades, and along -estuaries and 
lakes, especially where the water is a little calcareous. Escambia, Walton, Wash¬ 
ington, Franklin, Levy, Citrus, Lake and Dade Counties. 
Widely distributed in the North Temperate Zone. 
Spartina Bakeri Merrill. (Plates 24.2, 26.2.) 
Grows just about high-water mark on the borders of lakes, open ponds, 
marshes, peat prairies, etc. Occasionally abundant well out on prairies and 
marshes, on several feet of peat (especially in the Julington Creek and Crescent 
Lake marshes, described on pages 287-289, and scattered over the southern portion 
of the Everglades. Pretty widely distributed over peninsular Florida. Franklin, 
Duval, St. Johns, Putnam, Volusia, Lake, Orange, Osceola, Polk and Dade 
Counties. 
Found once by- the writer near Brunswick, Ga. Otherwise not known out¬ 
side of Florida. 
Spartina glabra Muhl. (Plate 17.) 
Abundant in salt marshes in the northern half of the State. Franklin, 
Nassau, Duval, St. Johns, Levy and Volusia Counties. 
Maine to Texas, along the coast. 
S. juncea (Mx.) Ell. occasionally grows with it, or in the drier parts of 
the same marshes, near Cedar Keys at least. It is said to range from New¬ 
foundland to Texas. 
Homalocenchrus hexandrus (Sw.) Kuntze 
In shallow water, Hicks’s Prairie, Lake County. 
Eastern North Carolina to Argentina, etc. 
Zizania aquatica L. Wild Rice. 
Estuaries of the Escambia, Blackwater, Choctawhatchee, Apalachicola and 
Suwannee Rivers. 
New Brunswick to Manitoba, in the glaciated region, south in the coastal 
plain to Texas. Also reported from Eastern Asia. 
Chaetochloa magna (Grise'b.) Scribn. (Swamp Millet). 
In marshes and prairies which have been ditched or otherwise tampered 
with. Lake, Manatee and Dade Counties. 
Introduced from the West Indies. 
