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Published quarterly from 1953 - 1955

About the Author: R. Bruce Ledin

As one might suspect from the intimate knowledge of the native composite flowers shown in COMPOSITE PLANTS IN THE EVERGLADES NATIONAL PARK, author R. Bruce Ledin has done earlier special work on this family of plants. Just two years ago he published "Compositae of south Florida." This publication provides drawings and simple keys which enable interested amateurs to identify with confidence the wild composites of south Florida, and it won the prize as the most valuable scientific contribution published by the Florida Academy of Sciences for 1951.

Educated at the University of Minnesota and the University of Indiana, author Ledin (pronounced Leh-deen) came to south Florida in 1946 as instructor in botany at the University of Miami. He left that university in 1951 to take his present position on the staff of the Subtropical Experiemental Station at Homestead. Here he conducts studies on tropical fruits, ornamental plants, and plant introduction from other lands.

From author Ledin we also have in this issue a thoughtful and stimulating review of the book "Flowering trees of the Caribbean." His own recent work on tropical flowering trees in south Florida as co-author of the new book "400 plants of south Florida" and his own experiences studying plants in the West Indies, have signally qualified him to pass this appraisal on to the rest of us.