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the characteristic Antillean flora of the aoa, is largely replaced 
by plants of more northern distribution. A visit was also made 
to a hammock between Lemon City and Little River which con- 
tains a few royal palms apparently doomed to destruction by 
lumbering operations. 
One of the objects of our mp was to obtain information and 
specimens to aid in the t of the flora of southern 
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Fic, 22. Border of the everglades west of Cutler, Florida; a ‘* prairie’’ in the back- 
ground. 
Florida with that of the Bahamas and of Cuba, in codperation 
with the work of Dr. C. F. Millspaugh, Curator of Botany at 
the Field Columbian Museum of Chicago, who is conducting an 
important investigation of the northern limits of the Antillean 
and I accompanied him the same day by steamer to Nassau, 
New Providence, and the time between April 7 and g was devoted 
