70 BOTANICAL GAZETTE. 



DiPLOPAPPUS ERicoiDES, T. & G. — To save labor to some others who, like myself, 

 work under the double disadvantage of a rather limited library and an herbarium (rich 

 enough in the later new species) with but few specimens from the original sets made 

 prior to 1862, I put the following in print. From our present standpoint it is evident 

 that Dipknyappus as formerly understood must be partitioned out among other neigh- 

 boring genera, and of the species that concern us here one goes to section Ericameria 

 of Aplopappus, and the other to section Orthomeris of Aster. In the unavoidable 

 changing of names a confusion arises under the name above given, i. e., Diplapfippus 

 ericoides, there being two plants that bear the name in herbaria and books. The fol- 

 lowing may in some sense clear up the matter : 



Diplopappiis eriroides, Less. Ajjlopappus 

 erit'dides, DC, and apparently also of 

 Hooker and Arnott. See DC, Prod. V., p. 

 278; Bol. Beechy, p. 14G; and Fl. Cal. I, p. 



3i;i 



In the last, Ericameria tjiicnqihylla, Nutt., 

 is also cited as another name for the same, 

 and by this it apjiears in Flora (jf North 

 America, T. 6^ G., 2, p. 2o6. 



Diplopap2)us ericoides, T. & G. Eueepha- 

 lus ericoiden, Nutt. ''Inula? ericoidei,ToTrl 

 in Ann. Lye, New York, 2, p. 212. Chry- 

 sopsi.'i ericoide.^, Eaton, Man. Bot." 



Now placed in A.'iter under Sect. Ortho- 

 meris. As the name eriroides is preoccu- 

 pied in this genus I suggest for it Aster 

 ericwfolius^ which indicates even more 

 closely its general habit. 



See also Biplopappus eriroides, T. & G., 

 Vol. v.. King's Report; Pi. Wright., p. 78; 

 PI. Fendl., p. 69; Bot. Mex. Bound., p. 78. 



The two plants are so different in habit,— the one suggestive of (so far as arrange- 

 ment of the foliage goes) Erica, and the other of Adenostomafasciculaiiun, Hook & Arn., 

 or of E rio(jon.um. fascicidatum, Benth. — as well as in habitat, that any furthur descrip- 

 tion is unnecessary. — J. T. Rothrock. 



Botanical Rambles in East Florida. — It was the 16th of February last when 

 the fast and comfortable steamer "Gen'l. Sedgwick" landed me at the beautiful little 

 town of Palatka, located upon an elevated site on the west bank of the river, and about 

 75 miles from Jacksonville. The enterprise and neatness of the place with its pleasant 

 surroundings make it at once attractive and inviting to the traveler. I walked through 

 the open built town to a hotel and my attention was attracted and my mind absorbed by 

 the novelties along the way. Everywhere appeared the faces of Northern citizens. The 

 handsome white dwellings and large hotels were pleasing to the eye. The natives 

 struggling through the deep loose sand in the streets with their ox-teams suggested 

 poverty with the ludicrous. The wild orange trees laden with golden fruit, and per- 

 fuming the air with their fragrant blossoms, ornamented the streets. The mulberry was 

 dropping its ripe fruit. The mocking birds, perched on the shrubs and trees, made the 

 air tremulous with their many and varied tuned melodies. The bee was homeward 

 bound, ladened with the poisonous pollen of the Jessamine. The grasshopper manifest- 

 ing all the suppleness of a midsummer day, and even the house fly, emboldened with 

 brazen eft'rontery, would alight in the stranger's way. Indeed, everywhere seemed to 

 be life and it was difficult for me to realize the transition from the cold northlahd to this 

 balmy June climate of the " Sunny South." 



The St. John's is a beautiful stream of water, placid and winding with many fine 

 coves along its banks, and neat cottages wath fine orange groves at frequent intervals. 

 So tranquil are its waters that the current is not perceptible save at times as marked by 

 a line of the single floating plants of the Pistia sj)athvlata, Miclix., which advance 

 from and recede to the coves with the falling and rising of the tide. After several 

 hours sailing the vegetation along the river appeared more advanced, the maple was just 

 in full foliage and the black willow green with leaves, the cypress was dropping its long 

 pendulous aments, and the Styrcu grandifolin, Ait., white with blossoms. The xiustra- 

 lian pine and the saw palmetto are constant companions, and so abundant are the large 

 Xv root stems of the latter that the tannic acid washed from them by the rains and uniting 



