JOURNAL 
OF 
The New York Botanical Garden 
VoL. V. March, 1904. No. 51. 
REPORT ON EXPLORATION IN TROPICAL 
FLORIDA. 
Dr. N. L. Britton, Director-1n-CHlEF, 
: The undertaking of this trip was prompted by the 
lately developed conditions at the extreme southern end of 
peninsular Florida. The country southwest of Miami and its 
mination of the flora of that unexplored region, 
in advance of settlement and the eee eradiction of native 
species and the introduction of foreign plants, seemed very desira- 
ble in itself, if not necessary to the proper understanding of the 
relation of the flora of that portion of our country to the flora 
of the neighboring West Indies, the study of which is being 
actively prosecuted under the auspicies of the Garden 
By your permission I left New York City on the morning of 
October 26, 1903. Florida was reached on Tuesday the 2oth. 
A stop of twenty-four hours was made at Daytona in order to 
xamine certain herbaceous rane and the tree, Persea littorals, 
ee d there on a previous trip to Florida. The desired 
observations were made, but further exploration was prevented 
by continuous rain. Miami, the objective point was reached dur- 
ing the night of October 28. This place served as a base for 
our excursions during the month of November. 
week in November and remained my constant and indefatigable 
associate during the remainder of the month. To his energy 
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