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sary to take in addition a “ boy ” (a negro anywhere from fifteen 
to fifty years of age) to carry lunch and drinking water, to cut a 
il if necessary with the huge cutlass which he always has in a 
leather sling over his shoulder, and to carry the plants collected. 
The necessary expenses of the trip including steamer passage 
at the summer rate, a month at Cinchona, and guide are about 
one hundred and sixty dollars and one must count upon another 
fifty if he wishes to see something of the plains and the western 
part of the islan 
To have personal knowledge of banana plantations, sugar-cane 
and coffee, of Sapadillos, chochoes, and akee, the experience of 
tropical living, together with the scientific knowledge which is 
gained make a trip to the Cinchona Laboratory a delightful part 
of a botanist’s education. 
WINIFRED J. ROBINSON. 
VASSAR COLLEGE. 
THE PALMS OF FLORIDA. 
Up to the present time there are definitely known to occur in 
Florida fourteen species of palms, representing eight genera. Of 
these fourteen species, eight are endemic to Florida, four con- 
fined to the United States, but not restricted to Florida, one is 
widely distributed in tropical America in addition to its occur- 
rence in Florida, and the remaining palm is the only one not 
indigenous ; this exception is the cocoanut palm, Coces nucifera, 
which has been introduced, but has taken so kindly to its genial 
surroundings that it has all the appearance of being native ee 
and manner borne, rearing its stately stems into the 
upward of eighty or one hundred feet. Surely it is one of = 
most graceful of palms, giving in great part to the southern part 
of the peninsula, where it alone thrives, that tropical aspect so 
appealing to the northerner fresh from the rigors of the northern 
winter. 
All but two of these fourteen palms are at present under culti- 
vation in the collections of the Garden; these exceptions are: 
Thrinax Keyensis, first found on one of the islands of the Mar- 
