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— region. Then we continued southward, eae 
the way, as far as Cocoa. ere we crossed the on— 
ae River—to Merritt’ s Island. 
This island is one of the larger, if not the largest island in 
Florida. Its position, too, is unique. In the later geologic 
st. 
the shrubs and trees typical of oa. and doubt- 
mor 
the mainland shore on account of the protection from cold from 
the west afforded by the Indian River 
Ohio. He isa si f the Henry Curtis Beardslee (1807-1884) who was the 
author of a HC taleeue of the plants of Ohio” (1874) and was a contributor 
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University at Cleveland, on and for plea years senior master of the 
Asheville School in North Carolina. For many years he has been known as 
a collector of fungi, especially those of North Carolina = Ohio, and par- 
ticularly the Agaricaceae. e has spent portions of recent bea on the 
eastern coast of Florida studying fungii—John Hendley be har! 
