258 FLORIDA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY-THIRD ANNUAL REPORT.
NON-ALLUVIAL SWAMPS OF THE LAKE REGION.
Scattered all through the lake region are many non-alluvial swamps-or bays, as they might be called-usually located between high pine land and some of the lake marshes which will be described later. Most of their water probably seeps out the sandy hills of the pine land. The vegetation of such places is about as follows:

TREES

Magnolia glauca (bay) Gordonia Lasianthus (bay) Acer rubrum (maple)

Ilex Cassine (swamp holly) Pinus Ellicttii (slash pine) Persea pubescens (red bay)

SHRUBS AND VINES

Myrica cerifera (myrtle) Smilax laurifolia (bamboo vine) Pie**is nitida
Itea Virginica
HERBS
Blechnum serrulatum (a fern) Osmunda cinnamomea (a fern) Osmunda reqalis (a fern) Anchistea Virginica (a fern)

Sphagnum sps.

Cephalanthus occidentalis (button
bush).
Rhus radicans (poison ivy)

Saururus cernuus Lorinseria areolata (a fern) Tillandsia usneoides (Spanish moss) Dryopteris unita (a fern)

MOSSES. ETC.
Pallavicinia Lyellii

It is interesting to note that all but one of the trees and half the shrubs in this list are evergreen, and all but two of the herbs are ferns. I have found somewhat similar conditions in certain swamps in South Georgia* whose water the sun never shines on from the time it falls as rain until after it leaves the swamp.
The peat in these swamps is often several feet deep, but as they are located in a region where there is plenty of treeless peat, much more easily worked, they are not likely to be of much importance in the near future, and I have taken no samples from them.
NON-ALLUVIAL SWAMPS OF DE SOTO COUNTY.
(FIG. 2I1)
From half a mile to a mile east of the Peace River, on land gently sloping toward it, for several miles north and south of Arcadia, one can see from either the A. C. L. or the C. H. & N. R. R. (for these two railroads are almost in sight of each other for
*See Annals N. Y. Acad. Sci. 17: 93-95. 19o6.