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cover the same condition in different species. Records of such 

 occurrences are always of much interest. — Ed.] 



FAMILIAR WILD FLOWERS OF FLORIDA 



By W. M. BuswEi.1.. 



FLORIDA is often called "The land of flowers" which is. 

 probably understood to mean that flowers are found here 

 in greater abundance than in other parts of the country. It is a 

 land of flowers, when other places are lands of snow and ice, 

 yet I have seen more wild-flowers at one time in New England, 

 or on the prairies of western Canada, than I ever have in 

 Florida. 



There are fluwers every day in the year, whicli cannot be 

 said of every state, but the number found in any one place 

 does not seem to be unusually large, for many of them are 

 found in one county, and not in others. 



Many of the towns send out pamphlets, and small books, 

 inviting you to visit "The land of flowers" but the flowers 

 described are usually cabbages, celery, and other garden truck, 

 not at all descriptive of a land of flowers. These seem to be 

 about the only flowers that are well known in the state, and 

 unless it is something to eat, or something that can be sold, 

 very few have ever noticed that it grew here. A very few 

 books such as the Northern States are .so well supplied with, 

 would probably create an interest in this subject, but as so few 

 of these ])lants have ever received a common name, it is a dif- 

 ficult task to describe them in a [)opular way. Not all of them 

 have been neglected in this way however, for many of the com- 

 mon wild flowers of Florida were christened long ago, in lands 

 that are far from tropical. 



People from the norlh will he able to name many of the 

 plants they find here vvith(nit the aid of a book, and familiar 



