PRELIMINARY REPORT ON PEAT.

LOCALITIES OF SPECIAL INTEREST.
LAKE PANASOFFKEE AND VICINITY.
Around Lake Panasoffkee, in Sumter County, there are extensive deposits of peat of considerable depth, which ought to be valuable. The water of this lake, unlike other Florida lakes, comes mostly from limestone springs, and is quite clear; and the vegetation around it differs considerably from that around the large lakes of the lake region.
The deeper parts of the deposit, next to the open water, are covered with marsh vegetation, as usual, and between the marsh and the dry land is a large dense cypress swamp, traversed by several sluggish channels or bayous. The following plants were noted within a mile or so of Panasoffkee station, at the south end of the lake, on April 22 and 23, 1909, and May 16, 1910.
LARGE TREES
Taxodium distichum (cypress)
MEDIUM-SIZED TREES.

Fraxinus profunda? (ash) Acer rubrum (maple)

SMALL TREES Salix lcngipes? (willow) SHRUBS AND VINES

Cornus stricta? Itea Virginica Cephalanthus occidentalis (button
bush)
Sambucus Canadensis (elder) (introduced?)

Berchemnia scandens (rattan vine) Ampelopsis arborea Rhus radicans (poison ivy) Aster Carolinianus

HERBS

Cladium effusum (saw-grass) Tillandsia usneoides (Spanish moss) Hydrocotyle Bonariensis? Cicuta Curtissii Rhynchospora corniculata Eupatorium perotinum Sagittaria lancifolia Piaropus crassipes (water hyacinth)
(introduced)
Pistia spathulata (water lettuce)
(floating in bayous' Hydrocotyle verticillata

Carex comosa Erechthites hieracifolia (introduced)
Saururus cernuus Osmunda regalis (a fern) Pontederia cordata (wampee) Echincchloa Crus-galli? (a grass) Carex stipata Scirpus validus (bulrush) Carex alata
Rumex verticillatus Nymphaea macrophylla (boinets)

Fraxinus Caroliniana? (ash)

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