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erate and some tropical regions, being but feebly manifested. 
Individuals of many or perhaps the majority of the species may 
e found in all ees of development, sometimes in a very re- 
stricted area, sometimes in a more extended area: for example 
in the vicinity of Miami the small silverleaf palm, Coccothrinax 
Garberi, was bearing mature fruit, with an occasional plant in 
flower, while in the pinelands thirty or forty miles to the south- 
west the plants were nearly all in full flower, those bearing fruit 
being about in the proportion as those in flower about Miam. 
The relation of the flora of our southern points of aeion 
to that of the West Indies is clearly brought out by our collec- 
tions and observations, and may be briefly stated as follows: 
Nearly all of the tropical species added to the North American 
flora were discovered in or about the -hammocks which are essen- 
tially duplicated by similar formations in the West Indies. On 
the other hand nearly all of the ace species were found 
' growing only in the pinelands which formations are not dupli- 
cated in the West Indies. 
We left Florida about the first of December, with the satis- 
faction of having accomplished at least a general survey of con- 
siderable eee below ae and especially a rather careful 
examination of several of the s ammocks previous to their 
extermination which has been ete and which will be completed 
with the early advent of the homesteaders. Our only regret was in 
not being able to advance farther toward Cape Sable. However, 
if another excursion is possible during the coming spring, before 
the beginning of the rainy season, considerable territory beyond 
Longview Camp may be explored and many of the novelties now 
existing in the everglades and hammocks of that region brought 
to light, thus increasing our knowledge of the flora of Florida 
and its relation to that of the West Indies. The results of our 
field work amount to a total of about three thousand specimens 
representing nearly one thousand field numbers and somewhat’ 
fewer species. Two trees were added to our arboreous flora. 
nized West Indian species, while the remainder are undescribed. 
J. K. SMatt. 
