JOURNAL 
OF 
The New York Botanical Garden 
VoL. XIX April, 1918 No. 220 
A WINTER COLLECTING TRIP IN FLORIDA 
WITH PLATES 210 AND 21 
During the second week of last December, I set out for South 
Carolina and Florida on a short excursion primarily for the pur- 
pose of studying and collecting cacti, persimmons, palms, and 
zamias. 
My objective in South Carolina was Charleston, where I had 
hoped to find, for the first time, the fruits of the crow-foot 
and compared. The specimens brought from Charleston to the 
Garden in 1916, and necessarily grown under glass, had thus far 
failed to produce flowers. 
Unfortunately, an easterly gale accompanied by heavy rain 
ept me indoors during the time I had to devote to Charleston. 
Nevertheless, through the interest of Professor Paul M. Rea, 
director of the Charleston Museum, we later secured eeecinca: 
‘old weather and rain accompanied me throughout nearly a 
week’s field-work and collecting in northern Florida, but neither 
{Journat for March, 1918 (19): 47-68 was issued April 1, 1918.] 
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