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As an alternative we went southward to the edge of the Ever- 
glades and gathered several hundred living plants of a large rose- 
mallow (Hibiscus), half of which number we shipped to the Gar- 
den for the ee erimental work being carried on there in connec- 
tion with that genus. 
The ene tree of Misanieca in Brickell Hammock, well 
known to nearly all botanists visiting at Miami during the past 
decade, has been destroyed. It was blasted out of the rock in 
making a roadway, and the trunk was thrown along the side of 
the road torot. This particular tree was for a long time thought 
ickell Hammock have been exterminated,* and the hammock 
usually occurs as a shrub or a small tree. owever, in some of 
the more open parts it grows more luxuriantly, and develops 
and their pro 
On April mi ne F. W. Pennell arrived at Miami after a col- 
lecting trip through Georgia and northern Florida. He was 
associated with me in exploration for three days in the Miami 
region and for three days on the Florida Keys, whence he had 
planned to sail for exploration in Colombia. 
* Since writing the above many ae a ot Masoniece: have been discovered 
in Brickell Hammock by Mr. Victor It is likely 
which the writer collected specimens in 1904, then adding the tree to the flora of 
the United S 
