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of the pinelands and the Everglades. We collected plants we 
had not encountered there at earlier seasons, and our most 
valuable find was a large fruiting specimen of a typically West 
Indian terrestrial orchid, quite rare in the United States, namely 
atypus. Other local collecting was done in that ever-prolific 
area, Brickell hammock, which is now partially within the city 
limits of Miami and adjacent to its southern boundary. This 
G.26. The coastal sand dunes opposite Miami. In the background may 
seen nia large leaves of th pee and other shrubs. The foreground is occu- 
pied by a plant of a cactus ie n to grow only in tropical alee called Opuntia 
ausivina. This aie is peculiar among other opuntias growing east of Texas in 
ring ers, like potatoes, on its a part: 
limited area has added many novelties to our flora, consisting 
chiefly of typically Antillean plants, and it is still maintaining 
its reputation, for since my last report two more additions to 
our tree flora have been found in its forests. Opportunity was 
then taken to examine the sand dunes along the coast at points 
opposite Miami, at the House of Refuge about seven miles 
further north and on Soldier Key, south of Cape Florida. The 
