PRELIMINARY REPORT ON PEAT.

Lophiola aurea Ker
Low pine lands, sandy bogs, estuarine swamps, edges of tyty bays, etc., from Franklin and Jackson Counties westward; not common.
New Jersey to Mississippi, in the coastal plain.
SMILACAiCEAE. Smilax Family.
Smilax laurifolia L. Bamboo Vine.
As in the case of Magnolia glauca and several other woody plants, this prefers bogs and swamps whose water-level fluctuates very little, such as nonalluvial swamps, bays, and clumps in peat prairies. It tolerates calcareous water (in Florida, not so much in other states), but has no use for mud or salt. Common in nearly all the counties north of the Everglades, and is not unknown in Dade County.
New Jersey to Louisiana, mostly in the coastal plain.
Smilax Walteri Pursh.
In somewhat richer or more calcareous swamps than the preceding; less common. Escambia, Santa Rosa, Jackson, Wakulla, Jefferson, Madison and Levy Counties.
New Jersey to Louisiana, in the coastal plain.
JUN CACEAE. Rush Family. Juncus trigonocarpus jSteud.
Sapdy bogs and estuarine swamps in We.st Florida. On peat in Escambia County.
South Carolina to Mississippi; almost confined to the coastal plain.
Juncus polycephalus Mx.
Estuarine swamps of Escambia and Santa Rosa Counties.
North Carolina to Texas, in the coastal plain.
Juncus scirpoides compositus Harper (Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 33: 233. 1906.)
Low pine lands, low scrub, sandy shores of lakes, etc. Occasionally out in the water or on the edge of peat. Not rare in the central parts of the State. Putnam, Lake, Orange, Osceola, and several other counties.
North Carolina to Mississippi, in the coastal plain.
Juncus Roemerianus Scheele
In brackish marshes all along the coast. Also occasionally a few miles inland, in low pine land (Wakulla Co.) or in estuarine swamps (Santa Rosa Co. and Hog Island).
New Jersey to Texas. along the coast.

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