PRELIMINARY REPORT ON PEAT.

Nymphaea fluviatilis Harper (Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 33: 234-236, 1906.) (PLATE 19.2.)
In creeks, rivers and estuaries from Franklin and Jackson Counties westward; not rare in West Florida. Has no objection to muddy water, and probabl'v does not enter very largely into the composition of peat.
The range of this species is not well understood yet, but it is common in South Georgia, and probably extends northeastward to North Carolina and northwestward to the vicinity of Birmingham, Ala.
Nymphaea sagittifolia Walt.
Rather common in estuaries around Milton. Not known elsewhere in Florida, or in either of the adjoining states, but it is common near the boundary between North and South Carolina, in the coastal plain.
Nelumbo lutea (Willd.) Pers. Winkepin. Yankapin. Water Chinquapin.
Grows in several of the lakes of Leon County. Also in a pool near Waldo, where it is doubtless introduced. Said to be common in Alligator Lake, Columbia County.
Widely but very irregularly distributed in the glaciated region and coastal plain.
Brasenia purpurea (Mx.) Caspary
In several lakes and ponds in Leon County, and doubtless in some other counties in AMiddle Florida. It is very apt to turn up in artificial or accidental ponds as well as in natural ones.
Widely distributed in our glaciated region and coastal plain; also reported from various other parts of the world.
Cabomba Caroliniana pulcherrima Harper (Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 30: 328 1903.)
In a small estuarine creek about two miles northwest of Apalachicola. Collected by Rugel in 1843 in Lake lamonia, Leon Co., and found by the writer in Decatur County, Georgia, in 1901.
MAGNOLIACEAE. Magnolia Family.
Magnolia glauca L. (White) Bay. (PLATE 27.I. FIGS. 19, 21.)
Common nearly all over the State, in swamps whose water fluctuates very little, or in soil which is always moist but never inundated. It avoids alluvial swamps and seems to prefer sour swamps, but is often found in muddy estuarine swamps, calcareous swamps, and even in low hammocks. (In other states it seems to shun limestone.) It is the most abundant tree in non-alluvial swamps in the lake region, and in clumps on peat prairies.
Long Island to Texas, mostly in the coastal plain.

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