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No Name Key is the type locality or the place where several 
kinds of flowering plants new to science were first found during 
n 
which =pcene rivals the pines themselves. The young trees 
of both ery ae with stout trunks and heavy 
the 
oe but not so much in ees and the crown of leaves is 
eastern shore through pineland and hammock t s the 
southern end and then ae to the western sid ther 
or western sid the oe is mostly land, whil 
the eastern side is t sae e hammock is rather 
stunted, but dense, and it has for. ae eae able humus on the 
or. 
to clear the land for the cultivation of crops. 
As we have already said, natural agencies are slowly destroy- 
ing the Florida Keys and acenees in all probability, many 
kinds of plants that once grew on them have disappeared. Man 
wa. 
ium specimens we secure and preserve in our museum collec- 
