82 BOTANICAL GAZETTE. 



Claytonia Vikginica. — I was pleased to note that my remarks on Claytonia have 

 led to a comparison of notes. I trust tiiat observations of this and other plants will be 

 made next season. Dimorphism in C'htytonia is new to me. In Epigiea repens, 

 Mitchelld and others I have noted it, and made record there )f many years ago in the 

 Proceedings of the PJdladdphia Academy. It would be, I think, a service to science if 

 Mr. Wheeler would endeavor to ascertain next season how the flowers of No. 2 are fer- 

 tilized V What insect, if any, visits them ? And how they work as regards lertilization V 

 It would also be worth looking at again to see whether "ditiereut stems grow from one 

 tuber." My memory seems to say that only one stem grows from one tuber, but I may 

 be wrong. 



Albinos are not unusual in all blue flowered plants. I found a white Brunella vul- 

 garis lastyear. Scarlet more rarely produce white flowers, but I never found a species 

 normally white, with blue or red ones. Has anybody seen such V It seems easier to lose 

 color than to regain it. — Thomas Meeiian, Germantoicn, Phila. 



BoT.\MCAL Rambles in East Florida, {concluded.) — It was my great desire, at the 

 earliest possible time, to reach the head waters of the Kissimee and the "Indian River 

 Country," and return north with the increase of the temperature, but the unusually dry 

 season rendered the navigation beyond this lake impracticable, which obliged mc, 

 though reluctantly, to retrace my course with the hope of reaching by rail and the Gulf 

 a more southern latitude. Leaving the St. John's River country until July, on my 

 homeward way, a desire to see the old Spani.sh town of St. Augustine led me to return. 

 On June 30lh, at Tocoi, awaiting the arrival of the cars, my leisure time was occupied 

 in securing specimens of Eryngium (triiniatintiii, Baldw., Eiip]u>rl>in telephiuides^ 

 Chapm., Noiina Georgiana, Michx., and Finibrtstylis xtcnopliylla. It was but thirty min 

 utes ride and the quaint old town of Menendez came in view. I was impressed with its 

 cleanly appearance, no rubbish or weeds of any kind in the long narrow streets, not 

 even plants for botanical specimens, except, here and there, close to the walls of the 

 houses, depauperate specimens of Senchiern didyma^Fers., and Euphorbia maculata, L., 

 struggling for life. I had 1)een somewhat disappointed here in my botanical prospects 

 on account of the distance of interesting ground. After collecting in the lots Par- 

 thenium HyHteropJtoruH, L., and Altemantheru Achyrantlta, R. Br., my attention was di- 

 rected to the beach and Anastasia Island, both extremely barren, yet not devoid of inter- 

 est. On the former grew houstoiiia nnguntifolia, Mx., Bumelia lanuginnxa, Pers., Gilia 

 c.oronopifolia,Ft'rii., Biftntix lifUmtliK, Cliois., Atriple.vuri'narid^'^wii., (Jyperns Nutttdlii, 

 Torr., /wt inibricati(,Wii\i., Helianthus debilv<, Null., nnd Ipomaa AcctoHellafolia. On 

 the latter was seen Dodomei viscosta, L., ArcjinriK diffamt, Ell., Chiococca ra'',emosa, Jacq., 

 Panicum gibbum, L., and Frangula Caroliniana, Gray. The last, bearing an abundance 

 of red berries, appeared conspicuous and ornamental among the dwarfed liVe and 

 water oaks. Here are the quarries of the Coquiua rock of which the historical Fort 

 Marion was built over two centuries ago. 



An equable temperature is claimed for this coral state, and no doubt correctly. My 

 thermometrical records for the i]d, 4th and oth of July sliow only 85o to88o F. in the 

 shade, yet the riiys of the mid-day sun at this season are uncomfortably hot. I consid- 

 ered it i)rudent, therefore, to retrace my course northward and close my peregrinations 

 in this "land of flowers." However, about an hour's walk from the St. John's River, 

 the floral display became so inviting that with an intimation to the conductor he kindly 

 let me oft'. The vegetation was extremely interesting in this wild i)ine land and it was 

 much to my regret that the time was so short until the arrival of my steamer for Savannah. 

 On account of the precious hours no time was wasted in preparing specimens of 

 Pdlygaln faxtigi<ita, Nutt., P.^oralca eirgafa, Nutt., Pctalosteninn r.irneii.s, Mich., Ludwigiu 

 liiifolia, Poir., and xphiffocarpa. Ell., Rlir.rin .strirfa, Pursh., gl(d>en(f, Michx., and luteii, 

 Walt., Helianthella teniiif'dia,T. iSz Gr., Mxrshullia migiutifdui, Vwr^h., 8((bbat id macro- 

 phylla. Hook., chloroides, Pursh., and genlianoides. Ell., Asclepias tomentosa, Ell., Her- 



