PRELIMINARY REPORT ON PEAT.

EAST COAST LAGOONS.
(FIG. 25)
Some of the lagoons of the east coast strip, when far enough from inlets to have fresh water all the time, must contain considerable peat. The only fresh lagoon of this kind which I have examined (and that only superficially) is Clear Lake, about a mile west of West Palm Beach. The following herbs were noticed in it on April 13, 1909.

Fig. 25.-Clear Lake, a fresh water lagoon about a mile west of West Palm Beach, looking south from Okeechobee Road. April -3, 1909.

Cladium effusum (saw-grass) Pontederia cordata (wampee) Sagittaria lancifclia 0 Castalia odorata white water-lily) Panicum hemitomon (maiden cane)-

Rhynchospora corniculata Nymphaea macrophylla (bonnets) Limnanthemum aquaticum Eleecharis cellulosa (round grass) Crinum Americanum

No examination was made of the peat.

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