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Everglades, to the west of and past Camp Longview; thence 
back through the pinelands until we intercepted the old Camp 
Longview trail through the woods, then northeastward for some 
miles along the old trail to a point north of Homestead and finally 
south to Homestead. This excursion took us through much 
new territory which proved interesting from many standpoints. 
Incidentally we visited several attractive homesteads about 
Miami. These are developed and used without destroying their 
natural conditions. One of these was that of Dr. Nevins, which 
is situated on a high limestone ridge of pineland between Miami 
and Cocoanut Grove The actual elevation of this ridge is less 
than twenty feet, but it is locally considered a mountain. Dr. 
Nevins has made a beautiful homestead there with respect to 
the natural features of ge section. Another place of unusual 
interest is that of Mr. C. T. Simpson, which is situated on Bay 
Biscayne between Lemon City and Little River. Mr. Simpson 
has also preserved the natural features of his land, and in addition 
he has made a living museum of eo plants in a beatiful ham- 
mock along the shore of the Two particularly interesting 
plants were encountered there: ae one a tree of the galba (Calo- 
phyllum Calaba) and the other a vine of the sea-bean (AMucuna 
ig both raised from seed floated from the Seine Sea on 
e Gulf Stream and wesled aston on the nearb This 
brings up t h the seeds of — ies 
plants are frequently washed ashore both on the Florida Keys 
and on the coast of the lower part of the peninsula, neither species 
has yet been found growing naturally in Florida. The nurseries 
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much of interest, as regards both exotic plants and natives. One 
particularly striking plant there is a large specimen the Bahamian- 
Cuban-Floridian palm, Paurotis Wrightit, which has grown from 
a small plant Mr. Soar and his brother collected near Cape Sable 
while they were exploring in that region about a dozen years ago. 
Having finished our work on the mainland we started for the 
lower Florida Keys, and our long-cherished desire to begin the 
exploration of those little known islands was at last gratified. 
We proceeded over the Key West Extension of the Florida East 
