JOURNAL 

 The New York Botanical Garden 



EXPLORATION OF SOUTHERN FLORIDA. 

 Dr. N. L. Britton, Director-in-Chief. 



Sir: In a former report on an expedition to Southern Florida,* 

 I called attention to the fact that it had been our good fortune 



, of Miami while they were yet uninhabited. During our recent 

 expedition to the same region, the value of our earlier explora- 

 tions was emphasized by what we saw of the destruction caused 

 by the hurricane that had recently swept south Florida. Had we 

 not acquired a fundamental knowledge of the native vegetation 

 of that unique and fascinating region as early as we did, our 

 knowledge of the relation of the flora of south Florida to that of 

 tropical America would have remained very imperfect. 



With your permission I left New York on the twenty-second 

 of last October, and proceeded direct to Miami, Florida. I was 

 joined on the way by Mr. J. J. Carter, of Pleasant Grove, Penn- 

 sylvania, who continued my tireless associate throughout the ex- 

 pedition. Upon the invitation of Dr. Ernst A. Bessey, who is in 

 charge of the Subtropical Laboratory of the United States De- 

 partment of Agriculture, we established our headquarters in the 

 laboratory building of that institution, and to Dr. Bessey and his 

 associates, Mr. Fawcett and Mr. Wester, we tender thanks for their 

 constant cooperation and association. We were also accompa- 

 nied during most of the field work by Dr. H. C. Cowles, of the 



