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The forenoon, however, was devoted to the region about Rio 
and to the Herman hammock, where we searched in vain, for 
wild plants of Opuntia leucotricha, a cactus native in Mexico, 
that was naturalized there ae a century ago. Although we 
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The Florida oe ax ae floridana) which covers the 
Henn equaling the involucre, and Emelia coccinea, with large 
brown, magenta, and yellow Its discovery makes the fourth 
species of Oncidium for Florida. 
Many observations were made ong the cacti. All the 
specimens of the prickly-apples (Harrisiay introduced the year 
before, flowered, as well as the various kinds of prickly-pears 
(Opuntia), and valuable observations were recorded for future 
use. 
The most noteworthy: plant among the prickly pears, as to 
discovered on Big Pine Key 
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