JOURNAL 
OF 
The New York Botanical Garden 
VoL. X11 Piso ma 1911. No. 129. 
EXPLORATION IN SOUTHERN FLORIDA. 
. L. Britton, Drrector-1N-CHIEF. 
a Ww ith your permission, I left New York for ae 
Florida on the morning of January 24 0f this year. At Wa 
ton I was met by Mr. J. J. Carter, of Pleasant Grove, aie 
vania. Mr. Carter had been previously associated with me in 
ost of our exploration in southern Florida, and had again 
eee his services for field work. We proceeded direct 
o Miami, and made our exploration headquarters at the Sub- 
tropical Garden of the United States Department of Agriculture 
upon the invitation of Mr. Edmond Simmonds who had charge 
of that institution. 
The time at our disposal was divided between the mainland 
and the Florida Keys. The season being later than that of our 
previous sojourn in the region we decided to first explore the 
already known more interesting localities both near our head- 
quarters and then distant points and other regions previously 
singled out for attention, but not visited for either lack of time 
or adverse meteorological conditions, and although our collec- 
tions have not yet been studied the following account may con- 
tain points of general interest. 
Beginning with the localities nearest our headquarters both 
for the sake of convenience and to gradually accustom ourselves 
to the physical demands of field work incident to that region, 
we visited the pinelands and Everglades lying about the source 
of the Miami river, entering them both by boat and on foot. 
Interesting collections were made especially about the junction 
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