PRELIMINARY REPORT ON PEAT. 267
plants of the water-lily family, Castalia odorata and Nymphaea macrophylla, can usually be found. These may grow in water only a few inches deep, but in that case they are usually stunted. In slightly shallower water the following herbs are characteristic: Pontederia cordata (wampee), Sagittaria lancifolia, Panicum hemitomon (maiden cane).
A little nearer the shore, where the peat is exposed at low water, but still always wet, small trees of Magnolia glauca (bay), or such shrubs as Hypericum fasciculatum !and Cephalanthus (button bush), are often found, but the vegetation is usually all herbaceous, as follows:

Sagittaria lancifolia Panicum hemitomon (maiden
cane)
Eriocaulon compressum Pontederia cordata (wampee) Fuirena scirpoidea Cyperus strigosus? Xyris sp.
Lachnocaulon sp.

Erianthus sp. (a tall grass) Cladium effusum (saw-grass) Drosera capillaris? Hydrocotyle umbellata Gyrotheca tinctcria (paint-root) Amphicarpum sp.? (a grass) Lycopodium Chatmani Centella repanda

A little higher up, on sandy shores which are inundated at high water, but exposed most of the time, may be found the following. (In this list and the one just above, it has not been possible to arrange the species as strictly in order of abundance as elsewhere in this report, on account of the difficulty of determining the limits of the zones.)
TREES
(all of them rare)

Pinus Elliottii (slash pine) Ilex Cassine (swamp holly) Nyssa biflora (black gum) Magnolia glauca (bay)

Gordonia Lasianthus (bay) Taxodiumn imbricarium (pond cypress)

SHRUBS
(not common)

MAyrica cerifera (myrtle) Hypericum fasciculatum

Hypericum myrtifoliun Hypericum opacum