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with other shrub plantations between this station and the public 
conservatories and with the numerous trees to be planted in that 
part of the Garden during the spring, will ultimately make this 
entrance very attractive. N. L. Britton, 
Director-in- Chief. 
REPORT OF DR. M. A. HOWE, ASSISTANT CURA- 
TOR, ON A TRIP TO FLORIDA 
Dr. N. L. Britton, DrrecTor-In-CHIEF : 
Dear Sir: In accordance with your permission and instruc- 
tions, I was absent from the Garden for about seven weeks in 
October and November last, for the purpose of making collec- 
tions and field studies of the marine algae of Florida. I left New 
York on October 2, going south by rail to St. Augustine, where 
the first stop, of one week’s duration, was made. y only pre- 
vious expedition southward in search of seaweeds had been made 
in June and July of 1900, when Bermuda was visited, and the 
choice of the season for the Florida trip was determined not so 
much by any expectation at finding the marine flora at its best in 
October and November as by the wish to become familiar with 
the seasonal variations in the algal flora of the warmer parts of 
the continent. The coast about St. Augustine is almost wholly 
of sand or mud and offers little in the way of a natural foothold 
for marine plants, but certain kinds were found upon the sea-wall 
and upon jetties and wharves and a few others were found 
washed ashore from deeper water. St. Augustine is far enough 
north, doubtless, to make spring or summer much the best col- 
lecting time, at least so far as the number of species is concerned, 
At St. Augustine I was so fortunate as to meet Mrs. G. A. Hall, 
a well-known collector of algae, who very generously facilitated 
my work by helpful suggestions based upon an experience of 
ten years or more in exploring the shores of Florida. It was at 
her suggestion that my second stop was made at Jupiter Inlet 
which is on the east coast, 246 miles south of St. Augustine, ° 
and a little south of the 27th parallel of latitude. At this point 
Mrs. Hall had found several very rare algae which I was fortu- 
