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tation of this island and the adjacent keys, and I after- 
wards amplified my notes by examining material in the 
U.S. National Herbarium at Washington. In the herba- 
rium, I found plants from this region collected by Dr. 
Edward Palmer, Mr. A. H. Curtiss, Mr. Charles T. Simp- 
son, and Mr. Guy N. Collins, who on an expedition to— 
the Keys, in 1898, was eo by Messrs. C. i 
Pollard and E. L. Morri Z 
In the town of Key West the most striking feature of 
the vegetation is the coconut palm (Cocos nucifera), 
groves of which enlawce residences of the better class 
and in places fringe the snow-white seabeach. Most of 
the ornamental plants I saw here were introduced species 
