BULLETIN 
TORREY BOTANICAL CLUB. 
Notes on some Florida Plants, 
By Gro. V. NASH. 
The section of Florida visited by me, and where I spent some 
five or six months collecting the flora, had never before been sys- 
tematically explored botanically. One or two parties had col- 
lected for a few weeks in the winter season, but no one had spent 
any great length of time, and so it was practically a virgin field 
for the botanist. Its flora is most interesting, both in new and 
rare forms. The northern and tropical vegetation seem to overlap 
here. Ximenia Americana, a common West Indian shrub, and 
Mitchella repens, our common partridge berry, which has a far 
northern range, were equally common. This is a fair example of 
the extreme diversity of the forms. 
Eustis, a beautiful little town in the high pine land country, was 
the centre of my operations. This is situated on a lake of the 
Same name, some six miles long and three miles wide, connected 
with Lakes Griffin and Harris by the Ocklawaha River. It is 
about 25 miles from the Gulf, an equal distance from the Atlantic, 
and some 160 miles south of Jacksonville. I confined my opera- 
tions to a radius of 12 miles of this place. 
Lake county, a small section of which I explored, is situated in 
Central Peninsular Florida, right in the heart of the lake region. 
It seemed strange at first to find in a country where the soil is prac- 
tically nothing but sand, such a superabundance of lakes. They 
are everywhere. Five or six can be seen at once from the tops of 
