In open places at West Palm Beach we found a mallow (Side 

 e Barbadoes-gooseberry (Pereskia Pereskia),a climbing cactui 



wild — natnralized— in Florida about two years ago. 



The prairie-marshes along the way exhibited three plants that 

 showed their inflorescences above the turf of grasses and sedges. 



tickseed (Coreopsis) , and the tall arrow-head, Sagittaria lancifolia. 



greatest surprise along the coast. In a flat part of the "scrub " 

 what met our eyes but colonies of an Indian-pipe (Monotropd) ! 

 It is unlike the northern Indian-pipe (Monotropa uniflora) in 

 being larger, and, further, it has more color. The base of the 

 stem is pink, the middle part white, and the upper part, the 



(Carnegiea gigantea). Two plants of this species were introduced 

 from the deserts of Arizona and set out in the garden last June. 

 By the first part of December they had trebled in size. If this 



the cultivated plants of southern Florida. 

 The following forenoon was devoted to the vicinity of Cutler, 



were collected. There, too, we saw a plantation of the saw- 

 cabbage palm (Paurotis Wrightii), the first experiment of its 

 kind, i. e., planted en masse, several months old. 1 This palm 



