103 BOTANICAL GAZETTE. 



each time that the interior was tilled with gas of which the ("anesthesique") action is so 

 powerful. No larva could escape — not even those the most tliorounhly jirotectcd in the 

 debris of the plants that the\' had discovered. I have counted ."iO of them on one sheet 

 of my herbarium which contained the flowers of Fi'rt/s (Jar/m. Usually liiey at first 

 preserve their white color, but soon the^' take a brown tint more or less dark. The odor 

 ot the carbon bisuljihide is soon g-one; in a few hours the fasiculi dt) not retain a trace 

 of it. As this substance is very intlammable it is prudent not to light a flre or use a 

 candle or lamp in the same room where one is making use of it. 



The plants wiiicli liave been subjected to its action will not 1)e entirelj- protected 

 from future attacks, but they will l)e much less liable. :j; -= - It is probable 

 that one would not be obliged to make use of it again before four or ti\e years, and this 

 occasions neither trouble nor loss of time. Museums of Natural History and the pos- 

 sessors of large herbaria should make use of larger bo.xes in ordei- to place more in 

 them at the same time, increasing in proportion the quantity of carbon bisulphide." 



Botanical Rambles in Middle Flokida. — One accustomed to the open, rolling 

 and highly cultivated country of the North will note a marked contrast in this Coral 

 State. In leaving the river banks of the St. John's it was my expectation to meet at fre- 

 quent intervals good sized tracts of unwooded and cultivated lands, but there ;ip]K'ared, 

 along the entire line of rail to the Gulf, nothing but a continued unbroken pine forest 

 with here and there a village surrounded by open lots and a few tields. Yet, notwith- 

 standing its sylvan character, there are, away from the rail, open places of frequent occur- ■ 

 rence, of ponds, lakes, barrens, savannas, abandoned .and cultivated plantations. 



On approaching Baldwin, a junction station twenty miles from Jacksonville, and 

 passing through ojjcn, low and wet piny lands, the Atama.sco lily came in view at fre- 

 quent intervals, as well as the Wampee and narrow leaved Ainiinithiiiiu. <iainsville 

 was my objective point, and liere, ui)on arrival ^Nlarcli loth. I matle the necessary 

 arrangemeuts for the study of its immediate spring tlora. The early season, with the 

 frequent and extensive tires in the forests at this time led me to anticipate ;i meager 

 harvest; yet, the elevated and rolling land, the varied and fertile soil and the advanci'd 

 and luxuriant vegetation rendered my few days raml)le here both interesiing and profit- 

 able. In this vicinity, as elsewhere, are small meandering streams defined by marshy 

 banks, dense thickets and sometimes impenetrable jungles of woody undergi'ovvth. 

 Just in such jilaces occurred Cluonaxflnis Virijiniea, L. white with fringed t1(jwers, 

 Bi'(//>o/i i'a I'dpriDhifii, L., hidcu with beautiful red trumpet hloasonxti, Jlot/iiol/n f/lm/ni, 

 L., beginning to unfold its fragrant petals, Fynis arhufifolia, L. var., eri/f/in>r({ri/i{, 

 Cliapni., Ainorj)]ia friit iroHii , L., Lenfatlioe juicei/tosa, (iray, DecuvKirid hdrlnn-n, L anil 

 Smilax WiiUeri Pursh. In the streets of the town and on the dry sandy railroad Ijanks 

 grew in large mats Ariintlioxpcrntnui .vdiitln'iiidcu.DV.; Avhile in the wet side ditches 

 appeared plentifully, both in flower and fruit, Maijitcd Mirlt(iu.vii. Sehott ct End., and 

 Jtissitea lej)tocarp(i,l>iutt\ and on the shady banks ri/rrhaiKippun C<ir<iliiniiiiiis. DC, 

 Lorikera seiwpcnnvcnti, Ait., AlUniu sfridtttm, Jacq., fjairr (hixycai'pn, ]\[uhl., with occa- 

 sionally a How^ering specimen of Lwi urn Cfniadenxix, L. var., x(iii,(juin(a, T. <t Gr. Fre- 

 (iuently one will observe.in the dry i)ortions of these extensive forests a few small trees 

 or scrubs of <'/iw;/-cw« 6^^/'^','<('>fc^, Michx., instead of pine and as land marks of apparent 

 barren soil. While such slopes or ridges present no favored locations for particular 

 plants except this oak and Berldiidierd Kubdcdulix, Nutt, they yield, nevertheless, with 

 the adjacent dry soil such plants as Asimind pugind'a, Dunal, now coming in flower, 

 Ascynun piuiiUniii, Michx., Axtrcu/'ihis rilldsiin, Nutt.. Asc/rpids dtiiiilr.virdiflis, Michx., 

 Jatrophd iirei/K, L., var., .^•/^//«^/.sv^ J. Mueller, Crofim dr////rdi,f/i/'ii/iix, Michx.. and R/ii/n- 

 chospord pliimoiid, Ell. 



There appeared near this inland town, as not observed elsewhere, large and dense 

 forests of unusually tall exogenous trees of which the Magnolia, the Hickory, and the 



