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' Arriving at Miami we established our field headquarters in 
the laboratory building of the Plant Introduction Garden of the 
United Stat oe of Agriculture. Thence we made 
excursions ne and ne: 
A CRUISE TO THE KEys 
In eee to Rhododendron and cactus, palms were one of 
major objects—one palm of Soy distribution (Pseudo- 
oe) and one of the mainland (Paurotis). 
irty-odd years ago, in 1886, a acini new to the flora of the 
United States was discovered on Elliott’s ry and later in the 
same year on Long Key*®. It was the ho bage palm, so-called 
because the pith a the stems which a bounds in sugar is used for 
feeding hogs in the West Indies. We visited both the islands 
of seedling plants, the n al growth of this palm is ex- 
ceptionally slo e Pp. is apparently nearly extinct on 
this d. It was doubtless plentiful there not long ago, but 
supply of royal-palms (Roystonea regia) began to fail the palm 
peddlers, they fell back on the hog-cabbage palm and sold it far 
and near to the pease for the royal-palm. Thus the 
original grove on Long Key has been greatly depleted, if not 
exterminated. 
We noticed places where the sand had been disturbed some 
time in the past. These were doubtless spots from which palms 
2 See Journal of The New York Botanical Garden 23: 33-43. 1922. 
