332 FLORIDA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY-THIRD ANNUAL REPORT.
Polygala lutea L.
Frequent in sandy bogs of various kinds, in the northern half of the State. Also in several feet of peat in an open tyty bay (or prairie) in the West Florida coast region near Carrabelle.
Long Island to Louisiana, in the coastal plain.
LEGUMINOsSAE. Pea Family. Vicia acutifolia Ell. Vetch.
In and near low hammocks in the Gulf hammock region (Taylor Co.), and on peat on Hog Island at the mouth of the Suwannee River, Levy Co.
Coastal plain of Georgia, Florida and Alabama, mostly near the coast.
Aeschynomene pratensis Small
In sloughs, etc., at the southern edge of the Everglades and in the coast prairie near by, on impure peat or marl.
Not known elsewhere.
Amorpha fruticosa L.
On river-banks and in more or less calcareous swamps. Washington, Franklin, Suwannee, Duval, Putnam and Orange Counties. On fairly good peat in the St. Johns River swamp near Palatka.
Widely but irregularly distributed in the Eastern United States.
Glottidium vesicarium (Jacq.) Mohr. Coffee Bean. Bladder-bean.
A weed in rather rich damp soil, occasionally on peat that has been partly drained or trampled over by cattle. Seems to be commonest in the Middle Florida hammock belt.
South Carolina to Texas, in the coastal plain. Probably introduced from the tropics.
Dalbergia Brownei (Pers.) Kuntze. (Ecastophyllum Brownei Pers.)
In a mangrove swamp near Lemon City, Dade Co. Also in Brickell's Hammock, near Miami, and doubtless elsewhere in that vicinity.
South Florida and tropical America.
ROSACEAE. Rose Family.
Chrysobalanus Icaco L. Cocoa Plum.
A large shrub very characteristic of various kinds of swampy places in South Florida, such as the clumps of small trees in the southern edge of the Everglades and the adjacent coast prairie, along streams running out of the Everglades, etc. I have not seen it farther north than Palm Beach County.
South Florida, tropical America and western Africa.