JOURNAL 

 The New York Botanical Garden 



Vol. XXII November and December, 1921 No. 263, 264 



HISTORIC TRAILS, BY LAND AND BY WATER. 

 A Record of Exploration in Florida in December 1919. 



The prospect of passing, within the space of a few hours, 

 from the dead of winter into the life of summer is naturally 

 fascinating. With this outlook in mind Dr. and Mrs. Britton, 

 Mrs. Small, and the writer left New York en route for Florida 

 about the first of December, 1919. 



The striking objects in the landscape i 



a emerging from the 





e the dead stalks and 



leaves of cat- tails (Typha) and those 





(Phragmites). Both of these plants, eve 





occur as far south on our eastern seaboa 



rd as the Everglade 



Keys and Florida Keys, where they are no 



t only evergreen, but 



may often be found in flower or in fruit n 



early throughout the 



North of the Mason and Dixon line the 



hardwood trees were 









ones, still held their 



dead, dried leaves. The characteristic ba 



k, clothing the trunk 







in the landscape of the rocky slopes be 





while the smooth-alder (Alnus serrulate) 





showed its nascent aments ready to flow 



er with the first real 



