JOURNAL 
OF 
The New York Botanical Garden 
VoL. XIX November, 1918 No. 227 
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BOTANICAL EXPLORATION IN FLORIDA IN 1917 
Dr. N. L. Brirron, DIREcTOR-IN-CHIEF. 
Sir: With your permission I devoted four weeks during April 
and. May, nineteen hundred and seventeen, to further explora- 
tion of southern Florida. 
e or a part of each day was spent in the field. Our 
unknown and hitherto anes parts of the lower portions of 
mission of Dr. David Fairchild, we made our headquarters at 
the laboratory building of the Plant Introduction Garden at 
Miami, and there had the codperation of Mr. Edward Simmonds, 
in charge. 
Our field-work was inaugurated by an examination of the Ever- 
lade prairie east of Homestead and Florida City, a peculiar re- 
level. It is almost Jevel, usually dry, or nearly dry, during the 
winter, and normally submerged during the summer. The re- 
gion is dotted with hundreds of hammock-islands, each compris- 
ing an area varying from several square rods to several acres. 
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