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1909, by Mr. Carter and the writer. The maximum height it 

 attained was about twenty-five feet. 



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The several collections of the Wild Coffee, made both on 

 the keys and the mainland of Florida appear not to have revealed 

 it in any form but a shrub. Mr. Blodgett records it as a shrub 

 on Key West reaching a height of twelve feet. During more 

 recent exploration in the Everglades Mr. Carter and the writer 

 found it on the main island of the Long Key group as a small 

 shrub. During the fall of 1904 the writer found it very common 

 in hammocks about the middle of the homestead country, some 

 fifteen miles southwest of Cutler. Trees thirty to forty feet 

 tall and six to eight inches in diameter were not uncommon. 



Paritium tiliaceum (L.) Juss. 

 The Mahoe, an old world plant established on the Florida 

 Keys for many years, did not reach the proportions of a tree or 

 become established on the mainland, except perhaps in cultiva- 

 tion, until the present century. In 1905 Mr. S. H. Richmond 

 sent me specimens from trees growing in the shore-hammock 

 near Cutler. These trees evidently sprung from seeds brought 

 there by some natural means from the keys. Although this 

 is the only record we have of the tree occurring on the mainland, 

 it is to be expected along the shore of the bay at any point between 

 Cutler and Cape Sable. While in Miami in the summer of 1907 

 Mr. Richmond gave me additional specimens from the same 

 station. 



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The Egg Fruit has evidently been a naturalized member of 

 our flora for a number of years. This fact was brought to light 

 after the severe hurricane which swept over southern peninsular 

 Florida and the upper keys during the fall of 1906. The wind 

 and flood during this storm swept the forests of Elliott's Key 

 clean of the under brush and thus allowed easy access to portions 

 of the hammocks which were hitherto almost inaccessible. At 

 different points in the forest we found fine trees which had evi- 



