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our most familiar and exquisite members of this most charming 
family of plants. 
ELIZABETH G. BRITTON. 
REPORT ON EXPLORATION IN TROPICAL FLORIDA 
Dr. N. L. Britton, DirREcTOR-IN-CHIEF, 
Sir: According to your instructions I left New York for tropical 
Florida on the first day of last November. I proceeded direct 
Miami, where by prearrangement I met Professor Hugo de 
Vries, of the University of Amsterdam, Holland, and ie com- 
municated to him your invitation that he be a guest of the Garden 
during his sojourn in southern Florida. Professor de Vries had 
h eae + in the di : pas Be 
rough our systematic 
exploration of subtropical and tropical Florida and the West 
Indies as described in the various reports on exploration hereto- 
fore Lapis in this Jour He wished to see personally 
the vegetable and ae phenomena of that region. 
ne entering upon our field work, Mr. Edward Simmonds, 
who is in charge of the Subtropical Garden of the United States 
Department of Agriculture at Miami, kindly placed the labora- 
tory building of that station, and its facilities, at our disposal 
for a working and collecting headquarters. I wish to thank Mr. 
and Mrs. Simmonds for doing all in their power to promote our 
botanical work about Miami. I wish to particularly thank Mr. 
C. F. Sulzner, of Miami, and his family, for numerous courtesies, 
and for the almost constant use of his motor-boat and automobile, 
and especially for companionship in the field. The intimate 
knowledge both of the land and of the waters of Bay Biscayne 
and the vicinity, eat by Mr. Sulzner, was of 7. value 
to us in economizing time and saving trouble. Through Mr. 
Sulzner’s codperation Pee: de Vries was enabled to see 
with but little discomfort many points of interest in a compara- 
tively short tim 
Our first ee of the Everglades was made through 
the Miami drainage canal. This dredged channel enters the 
