JOURNAL 
OF 
The New York Botanical Garden 
VoL. V. August, 1904, No, 56. 
REPORT UPON FURTHER EXPLORATION OF 
SOUTHERN FLORIDA 
Dr. N. L. Brirron, Direcror-in-CHIEF. 
Sir: T submit the following report on botanical explorations 
in southern peninsular Florida, during a period of twenty days 
last May. our permission Mr. Percy Wilson, Adminis- 
trative Assistant, and the writer, left New York City for the field 
on May 2n We reached Miami the following Wednesday 
night. At the Sis of Professor Rolfs, who is in charge of 
the Subtropical Laboratory of the U. S. Department of Agri- 
culture at Miami, we established our headquarters in the labo- 
ratory building of that institution on Thursday morning, and I 
wish here to express our thanks to Professor Rolfs and his asso- 
ciates for their hospitality and for the assistance generously given 
for furthering our plans. I also take this occasion to thank Mr. 
J. S. Frederick, Civil Engineer, of Miami, for tracings of maps of 
lately surveyed portions of the Homestead country, which sey 
facilitated our investigatio 
Immediately after nee our headquarters we secured 
provisions and a team of horses. During the afternoon of the 
same day we set out for the field and at ten o'clock that night 
pitched camp in the heart of the Homestead country. We 
planned to divide our time principally between two points of 
special interest, the one Long Key, an isolated portion of pine- 
land and hammock formation surrounded by the Everglades, the 
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