JOURNAL 
OF 
The New York Botanical Garden 
VoL. XV April, 1914 No, 172 
EXPLORATION IN THE EVERGLADES AND ON THE 
FLORIDA KEYS 
Dr. N. L. Britton, DIRECTOR-IN-CHIE, 
Sir: The active work which has ae in progress for several 
years, preliminary to draining the Everglades, suggested to the 
writer the ‘desirability of observing the natural flora and of 
getting together a representative collection of the vegetation of 
that isolated plant-region in advance of the inevitable coloniza- 
tion and cultivation of its lands, and the consequent modification 
and perhaps the ultimate destruction of the original plant- 
covering. In the early part of the last decade a similar idea 
prompted us to undertake the exploration of the Miami Lime- 
stone Region or the Everglade Keys. Most of this eed 
small area was then difficult of access, but the wisdom of exploring 
nds of plants it yielded either new to science or new to the flora 
of the United States. 
etofore, much information about the southern portion of 
the reniaie: aoe tcuany that adjacent to the Miami Lime- 
stone Region, was obtained during the progress of the explora- 
tion just referred to, but much remains to be ascertained in 
what is perhaps the most interesting section lying between the 
larger islands of the Everglade Keys near the eastern coast and 
[Journal for March, 1914 (15: 47-68) was issued April 8, 1914. 
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