PRELIMINARY REPORT ON PEAT.

nee), about fifty miles away, it doubtless sometimes happens that the precipitation up there differs enough from that around the lake to set up a current through the slough in one direction or the other.
The vegetation of this slough, as might be expected, differs a little from that of either river-swamps or stagnant swamps. The following plants were noticed in it on July 5, 1909:
TREES

Nyssa uniflcra (tupelo gum) Taxodium distichum (cypress) Nyssa biflora (black gum)
SHRUBS

Hypericum galicides? Rhus radicans (poison ivy)

HERBS

Lorinseria areolata (a fern) Dulichium arundinaceum Osmunda cinnamomea (a fern) Tillandsia usneoides (Spanish moss) Commelina hirtella Saururus cernuus Osmunda regalis (a fern)
MOSSES

Acer rubrum (maple) Nyssa Ogeche (tupelo gum) (toward edge)
Styrax Americana Styrax Americana

Sphagnum sp.

Thuidium sp.

No search was made for peat here, but it cannot amount to much in a swamp which is dry a large part of the time.

Hydrocotyle verticillata Carex lupulina? Rhynchospora corniculata Carex Louisianica Boehmeria cylindrica Triadenum petiolatum

9,83b