PRELIMINARY REPORT ON PEAT.

Sphagnum sP.

MOSSES, ETC.
Trypethelium cruentum (a red
lichen) (on trees)

No samples of this peat were taken, but it is certainly full of logs, and probably rather sandy besides.
TYTY SWAMPS OF WALTON COUNTY.
(FIG. 18)
In a sort of "steep-head" just northwest of DeFuniak Springs there is a dense tyty swamp with steep sandy pine-covered slopes around its head. Its vegetation consists almost entirely of slender

Fig. 18.-Interior of dense tyty swamp just northwest of DeFuniak Springs (Walton County) showing nothing but Cliftonia. June 24, 1909. (Locality No. 39).

tyty bushes (Cliftonia), growing very close together and about 25 feet tall. Around the edges there is quite a variety of sandy bog plants, forming a fringe which is probably gradually creeping

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