TABLE OF CONTENTS.
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Preface...................................................205-207
General discussion ...................................................o209-214
Peat defined, and distinguished from muck and humus...... ....209-211
Conditions necessary for peat formation ............................. 211-212
General distribution of peat....................... . . ...... 212-214
Peat in Florida ................ ..................................... 215-305
Natural divisions of the State ........................................ 216-229
Principles of classification ......................................... 216-218
i. West Florida coast region .................................218
2. West Florida pine hills............................ ....218-219
3- West Florida limestone region .............................219
4. Middle Florida hammock belt............................219-22I
5. Lime-sink region ......................................... 221
6. Middle Florida flatwoods ................ ................221-222
7. Gulf hammock region ....................................... 222-223
8. Lake region ................................................. 223-224
9. East Florida flatwoods ....................................... 224-225
io. East coast strip .............................................. 226
i i. South Florida flatwoods ..................................... 26-227
12. Miami limestone region ...................................... 227-228
13. Coast prairie ................................................. 228-229
14. Keys (upper and lower) ...................................... 229
Classification of Florida peat deposits (for more minute details see table on page 23)...........................................230-293
General principles .............................................. 230-232
Salt water....................... ...................... 232-233
M uddy water .......................... ....................... 234-238
Calcareous water .............................................. 239-240
Swamp water and calcareous soil ................................ 241-245
Swamp water, non-calcareous ................................... 246-278
Alluvial .................................................246-247
Estuarine ..............................................248-251
Seeping .... ................................. .............251-26o
Stagnant ............................... ....................... 261-278
Shallow ................................... .......... 261-265
D eep ......................................... ............*266-273
Filled with vegetation ............... ........ .............. 274-278
Localities of special interest .................................... 279-291
Lake Panasoffkee and vicinity............................279-281
Helena Run .................................................. 281-282
Slough west of Lake Iamonia ................................ 282-283
Southern part of the Everglades .............................. 284-286
Tributaries of lower St. Johns... .............................287-:90
Julington Creek ........................................... .287-288
Crescent Lake ...................... ......... .............288-289
Edge of river-swamp near Palatka .......................... 289-296
"Infusorial earth" bog ..................................... ..290-291
Water-hyacinth peat. ......................................292-293
Fossil peat.............. ....................... 294-297