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of the Cabbage Palmetto. The golden polypod, as afterwards seen, was most abundant 

 and vigorous on the trunk, 30 to 30 feet from the ground, just beneath and in the shade 

 of the spreading Palmetto leaves. We arrived the same day at Mellonville, located on 

 the soutli bank of Lake Monroe, a quaint old town with little for attraction to the 

 stranger. The vegetation, however, had changed, and I was soon located and pros- 

 pecting for new plants. Many of my former acquaintances appeared, and in better 

 collecting condition, but their enumeration will be omitted. The contour and topog- 

 raphy of the country, the nature of the soil, and the character of the timber, are essen- 

 tially the same as at Palatka, except the dense Palmetto hummocks replace the maple 

 farther north. Here also the dense woody timber skirts the lake, and l)ack of this 

 extends the piny lowlands to the piny uplands. On this elevated or salamander land, 

 where these vigilant miners display wonderful activity in the construction of a great 

 number of diminutive mounts, I added to my list Heliarithemum G urulinianwm^ Mx., 

 Stipulicida setdcea, Mx., Polygaht c/ rand/flora, Walt., Iiicliffofera tiiictoria, L., Bhynchosia 

 toineidosa, var., ma turpi tylla, T. & (.t., and Detiinoditnii triflorain. The Inst, as Dr. 

 Cliapman tells me, is an introduction from the Indies. In the lowlands 

 grew CUmtatin Baldwinii, T. & G., Olde/ila/idia glovierata, Mx., Pterocaulon pychnos- 

 tachyum, Ell., Leptopoda puberuln., McBride, Ghwpialia tomeniosa, Vent., Lygodesmia 

 (iphylla, DC, Geiduiiculiis iidnimus, Jj., Pinguicula elatior, M.X., Gnttwla quadrideiitata, 

 Mx., Buchnera elongata, Swartz, Sabbat ia EUiottii, Steud., Tradescantia rosea, Vent., 

 Xyrix hi-esifidia, Mx., E riocauloii gnaphaloides, Mx., aod Fidrena scirpoidea, Vahl. In 

 the drier and more barren of these lauds appeared Polygula nana, DC, the dwarf of 

 the genus. In the streets of the village were patches in bloom of Vinca rosea, L., and 

 Erngrostis cilldrlx, Link. Along the lake or river, for the former is simply an expan- 

 sion of the latter, was found Sagittaria lancifoUa, L., and on the muddy flats, Sesuvium 

 peutandruiii. Ell., Mirrantlieinum Nuttallii Cr., Lippia nodijiora, Mx., and Azolla Caro- 

 liiiiana, Willd., the last, like the Pistia, assuming an amphibious nature, growing 

 equally well on the land and in the water. In the adjacent hummocks the vegetation 

 was interesting and rich in species, yielding in abundance and in good condition S. 

 Watson's variety of Lobelia Glifforiiana, WiWd., with Vicia micrantha, Nutt., Ilysa/ithes 

 grandiflora, Benth., Miryomcria Brownei, Benth., Eryngiuin Baldwinii, Spreng., Savtolus 

 Valerandi, L., var. Amflricanus, Gr., and Iris Jicxagona, Walt., with others of equal in- 

 terest, like Berehemia voltibilis, DC, coming in flower, Epidendruui oenosum, Lindl., in 

 fruit, Vicia acwiifolia. Ell., Leptocnulis divar'icatiis, DC, Tillandsia bracteata, Chapm., 

 with its bright and glossy scarlet Imicts, the proliflc T. jiLucca, LeConte, and T. utri- 

 culata, LeConte, Myrira inodura, Burtv., Axpidiiun jiatens, Swz., and Blcrhiiuinserrulatum, 

 Mx., the last abundant and in fine condition, as well as the Vittaria and the golden 

 polypo'l, previously detected. Near the village of Enterprise, on the north bank of the 

 lake, I met Zaiithoxylwm G arvlinianmn, Lam., Modiola muUifida, Mcench ., Parufaria 

 debilis, Forst., Iresiiie diffusa, H. & B., and, on the banks of a stream flowing from a 

 large sulphur spring, IlydrocJdoa GaroUnensis, Beauv., in dense mats. — A. P. Garber. 

 yio be cindirni"d.\ 



Catalogue OP the Floua op the Wabasu Valley below the Mouth op White 

 RiVEii. — -This botanical paper, by J. Schneck, M. D., appears in the report of the Geo- 

 logical Survey of Indiana for 1875. The plants contained in the catalogue are princi- 

 p;dly from two counties in Indiana, Gibson and Posey, and one county in Illinois 

 Wabash, although three other counties of the latter State are represented. The region 

 embraced is one of the most interesting and well defined botanical fields in the state 

 and the many rare plants contained in this list are only what botanists acquainted with 

 the topography of the coimtry have expected- Perhaps the most striking physical 

 features of the Lower Wabash are the cypress swamjis and bayous with their wealth of 

 aquatic plants and the barrens of the higher ground. These natural openings covered 

 with but scant if any forest growth yield our most prized plants, and .a very rapid 



