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is, why does the cabbage-tree grow erect while the saw-palmetto 
grows prostrate? 
e were soon back i 7 oe acl net see we in 
the matter of th 
because it repre: nts ‘the northern limit of the Has epiphytic 
type ‘(Encyelia ee €) and the southern limit of the temperate 
type (Auliza con ). In the vicinity of Halifax eee nort 
along the eastern coast. As far as we now 
been shipped daily to northern cities for, making floral decora- 
tions.! 
Thence We made haste to Paes ee northeastern corner of 
Florida, t,and nota“ painted 
desert,” . a pean of highly colored wild i as it 
should have bee 
The early oa found us at the mouth of the Saint John’s 
River and at the same time in a geographic center of prickly- 
very floriferous—scarcely equalled in this respect by the flori 
ferous forms a Dillenti. Thee ive areas of the 
flatter parts of the sand-dune, clothed wit prickly-pears 
almost to the exclusion of other conspicuous vegetation, was a 
unique sight to behold in our eastern states 
1 Journal of The New York Botanical Garden 22: 121-137. 
* Journal of The New York Botanical Garden 24: 16-23. 
