822 FLORIDA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY-THIRD ANNUAL REPORT.
What looks like a small form of it, but may be another species, L. lacunosum (Vent.) Griseb., grows in the estuaries near Milton and in a peat prairie near Lakeland.
L. aquaticum is confined to the coastal plain, and L. lacunosum to the glaciated region and coastal plain.
Bartonia verna (Mx.) Muhl.
Low pine land, margins of small lakes and bays, and in the drier parts of peat prairies; widely distributed over the state, blooming in midwinter.
North Carolina to Mississippi, in the coastal plain.
Sabbatia foliosa Fernald
Estuarine swamps near Milton.
South Carolina to Alabama, in the coastal plain.
Sabbatia calycina (Lam.) Heller
In swamps with calcareous soil or water and very little peat. Jackson and Duval Counties.
North Carolina to Cuba, Arkansas and Texas.
OLEACEAE. Olive Family. Osmanthus Americanus (L.) B. & H. Wild Olive.
In estuarine swamps near Milton. More common on bluffs and in ham mocks; widely distributed in the northern half of the state.
North Carolina to central Florida and Louisiana, almost confined to the coastal plain.
Fraxinus Caroliniana Mi!l. Ash.
What I take to be this species (though I may have confused one or tvo others with it) grows in swamps of various kinds, in Escambia, Santa Rosa, Wakulla, Duval, Sumter and several other counties, but rarely if ever on good peat. In the estuaries of the Escambia and Yellow Rivers a shrubby form -f it only a few feet tall, but bearing fruit, is common.
Virginia to Texas. mostly in the coastal plain.
Fraxinus profunda Bush. Ash.
In calcareous and estuarine swamps. Franklin, Jefferson, Duval, Putna n, Levy, Hernando, Sumter, Lake and Osceola Counties. (Our specimens differ from current descriptions in having the leaves smooth on both sides, but i hey have been identified as F. profunda by Prof. C. S. Sargent).
Range not well known. Said to occur also in Pennsylvania, Missouri and Georgia
THEOPHRASTACEAE. Jacquinia Family. Rapanea Guyanensis Aubl. (Myrsine Rapanea R. & S.)
In a slough on the north side of Paradise Key in the Evergiade, Dade Co. iAlso in a non-alluvial swamp a few miles west of West Palm Beach. More common in the hammocks of the Miami limestone region.
Florida to Paraguay.