JOURNAL 
OF 
The New York Botanical Garden 
- XX October, 1919 No. 238 
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COASTWISE DUNES AND LAGOONS 
A ReEcorp or Botanical EXPLoRATION IN FLORIDA IN THE 
SPRING OF 1918 
[WITH PLATES 230-238] 
Dr. N. L. Brirrox, DirEcTOR-iN-CHIEP. 
Sir: With your approval I devoted several weeks of April and 
May, 1918, to botanical exploration and investigation in penin- 
sular Florida, and at your request incidentally helped in securing 
paintings of plants of the Florida flora for illustration in Addi- 
sonia. I was accompanied to Miami by Mrs. Small and Eliza- 
beth Small, who attended to the drving of herbarium specimens. 
At your suggestion, moreover. Miss Mary E. Eaton, artist at 
the Garden, accompanied us for the purpose of making the 
paintings above referred to. 
Our collecting headquarters were maintained in the laboratory 
building of the Plant Introduction Garden of the United States 
Department of Agriculture with the permission of Dr. David 
Fairchild, and we had the coéperation of Mr. Edward Simmonds, 
the officer in charge of that station. 
All facilities for field work, and for painting as well, were gen- 
erously put at our disposal by Mr. Charles Deering, who was at 
personal pains to further our work on every occasion. 
Considerable time was consumed in selecting and gathering 
specimens for painting. For the most part, only those kinds of 
plants not previously illustrated were selected, As a result of 
Miss Eaton’s rapid and steady work, however, not less than 
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