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The moss-flora is absolutely bewildering; mosses coat every 

 windfall, every rock, and standing tree. One gathers a mat of. what 

 he thinks is one species, and finds he has half a dozen. I should 

 call it the region of mosses. 



Medeola 



leaves 



were felted together so as to form a nest for a spider. This creature, 

 which I found within, exactly imitated the curious flower of the 

 plant which has to me always had an arachnoid appearance- 



Franconia, N. H., Aug, 5th. W. W. Bailey. 



VincetOXicum SCOparium {Cynanchum scoparmm, '^wH. \ Cynac- 

 Unuml scoparium^ Chapm.) — It may be as well to record the fact 

 that this plant, whose habitat has been referred to Florida and the 

 West Indies^ I found a few years since on an island in May River, 

 not far from Hilton Head ; and lately, still more abundantly on a 

 small uncultivated island between Pinckney's Island and the main- 

 land. It is not alluded to by Elliott, whose home was in Beaufort, 

 about twenty to twenty-five miles off, I find the vines climbing the 

 trees some fifteen to twenty feet high; but, when prostrate, they 

 form dense, mat-like beds or masses of several feet in extent. 



Bluffton, S. C, Aug. 8, 1882. J. H. Meluchamp. x 



Notes from North Carolina. — The North Carolina Crocus.— l^ 

 North Carolina there is no other native plant called *^ crocus," and 

 this appellation to Epigaea repens is now never heard. 



The use of the word "crocus" for trailing arbutus is no more 

 singular than the local employment of the word ** tuckahoe *' for 

 Orontium aguaiicum. How this word was first employed in this way 

 is not known, but it may have had its origin in the Indian word "taw- 

 kee," which Prof. Meehan (Flowers and Ferns U, S.) says was the 

 name used by the Indians for Orontitim. He quotes Kalm's Travels. 



Another curious localism is the name "hog-eye" for £)ionaea 

 muscipula. This is confined to Duplin Co., N. C, and heard no- 

 where else, I believe. The lobes of the leaf of the Dw/iaea, with 

 their fringed edges, bear a sufficient resemblance to two upper eye- 

 lids joined at their base, to have caused Dr. Curtis to notice the fact 



in a description of the plant. 



New Station for Lygodium pahiahivi 



matttm has been found only in the mountain regions of the State. It 

 is now discovered in Duplin County, near the sea-coast 



New Station fi 



This plant was found 



growing on the limb of a white oak, in Pender County. It does 

 not appear at all in Curtis's Catalogue. 



Wilmington, N. C. ^ Thomas F. Wood. 



(A propos of Dr. Wood's remark on tuckahoe in the above notes, 

 it may be stated that this name, meaning " something round," was 

 applied by the Virginia Indians primarily to that curious subter* 

 ranean, often nearly globular production, still called '* tuckahoe/* 

 and which was used for making a sort of bread {iaccaho appoans^ 

 '" tuckahoe bread." — Strachey.) The name was also applied to several 



