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color. Interspersed with these spines are masses of woolly hairs, 
and it is from this combination of wool and spines that the flowers 
make their appearance, and afterward the bright pink fruits a 
half inch or more long. Plants from only an inch or two in diam¬ 
eter up to those with cone-shaped bodies sometimes two feet tall 
were of frequent occurrence here at Moujean Harbor. By all 
odds the finest specimens were observed here. 
The Agave referred to above was also distributed throughout 
the scrub, but not so generally as were the cacti. An exception 
must be made for Moujean Harbor in this respect, however, for 
here it was one of the most conspicuous features of the scrub. Its 
foliage was of a grayish green, much resembling the color of 
the common century plant. Another element here, and a most 
striking one on account of its apparent discord with the general 
note struck by the cacti and agave, was a palm, Thrinax keyensis, 
first discovered some years ago on the Marquesas Keys just to 
the westward of Key West. Here it grew in great profusion in 
the scrub, rising up out of the bare rock. It attained a height of 
six or eight feet. Taking a stand on one of the little eminences 
in the scrub at Moujean Harbor and looking out over the island 
one was struck with the prevalence of these three plants, which 
seemed h> stand forth like giants among a lot of pygmies: the 
tall grey pipe-like stems of the Pilocereus, rigid, erect and un¬ 
yielding ; the tall candelabra-like stems of the Agave , adding a 
touch of our own southwestern country; and the silvery fan-like 
leaves of the palm, firm and unyielding in structure too, but fur¬ 
nished with long slender petioles, so that every breeze made them 
sway too and fro, their hard surfaces rubbing together producing 
a most distinct rustle. 
Bromeliads were of frequent occurrence, sometimes growing 
in considerable profusion. These were all members of the genus 
Tillandsia. One of these, the Florida moss, Tillandsia usneoides, 
was observed in but one locality. This was at James Hill, where 
it hung in elegant festoons, casting a delicate shadow over the 
cacti which sprang up from the bare rock below. To one who has 
been accustomed to see this in quite different surroundings, it 
seemed entirely out of place here. Orchids, represented by the 
