48 AMERICAN FERN JOURNAL 
the ground but all are high up on tall palmettos. In 
many places there are dozens of plants to a tree, a circle 
of them under the fronds of the palm. 
The Florida Keys seem unsuited to fern life. I found 
_ nothing new and very few indeed of any kind of ferns. 
Collecting in Florida has its unpleasant features. Many 
_ of its thickets and jungles are almost impenetrable, and 
it has five species of poisonous snakes which grow very 
_ large. On former trips for birds, mammals, and reptiles, 
I have met many of them. 3 
__ The small black mosquitoes of the Everglade section 
ce _ bite without the warning song and inject five times the | 
_ venom that the N 
locate in your back hair, and is half 
him. He is tougher than leather, — 
oxen to pull him out, and then his — 
eam 
are worst of all, and so small as to be 
naked eye. They do not exactly — 
| irritate the flesh that it swells 
ers them, and the man who — 
will re the knack at — 
