• 128 not AN t GAL OAZETTH. 



Lychidt vexpertuui, Sibtli., and L. diurna, Sibtli., are quite coninion again this yeai" 



Poteiitilld repfaihs, L., and P. nnseriiin, L., are both abundant. The former seems 

 more inclined to produce flowers tlian in forniei" years. 



Poteniim sanr/u/sorha, L., a single specimen was collected. It has not been detect- 

 ed on the ballast deposits before. 



Trifolium hpbridum, L., has not yet appeared. It was quite abundant last year and 

 in one locality seemed likely to become established, but the "March of Improvement," 

 has eradicated it entirely from that spot. 



V'iciii Ci'dCCii^ L., but a single specimen Was found. It being so showy in flower- 

 it will scarcely survive tlie season, as "the boys" carry oft' most of the attractive plants. 



Centaurea Cytninn, L., is quite common again. 



Ciirdnux pi/e>i.ori'phidics, Jacq., a single specimen appeared last year for the first 

 time, now thirty or fortj' plants are growing in a space not more than fifteen feet square. 



AntheinU nohilis, L., only one specimen collected ; a plant was growing near the 

 same hjcality last fall l)ut it did not flower. 



Veronica liedermfolia L., and V. Baxbauinii, Teuore, are both in flower, but are not 

 plentiful. 



Echiaotipennum Ijiippidit, Lehm., is just coming into flower, was quite abundant 

 last year. 



EcldnoHpennum Rednirxkii, Lehm , is growing very luxuriantly on the railroad 

 embankment. This according to Gray's Manual occurs on the Western plains anil at 

 St Paul, Minnesota. The single marginal row of stout prickles on the nutlets is well 

 marked, and it .seems to flower much earlier than the other species. 



Myiiiii'ttH uroeiisi's, Iloff., is growing in a few i)laces. 



Asp''ri/i/» prornitdtenx, L., one specimen ouly. This was first detected by Isaac 

 Burk, of Philadeli)hia, about two weeks ago. 



Liyiai'ia spiii-id, Dcst., will be abundant again this year. 



Cari'.v hirta, L., is growing quite luxuriantly, and if not molested will flrmlj^ estab- 

 lish itself; the creeping roots are spreading rapidly in all directions. 



Alopeciiriix <ifjrexti!<,lj., wii^ coWi'cXi;^ in two localities. I found l)ut one specimen 

 of it last year. 



On a lot of new ballast was growing GodeAia qu'i'lrlcidrwra, Spach., and Ollia cnpi- 

 tata, Douglass, both Western species. I am puzzled to know how they got here, unless 

 some ballast from California has been deposited, which I have not been able to ascer- 

 tain. Some half dozen species of each were collected. 



This transportation of seeds and conse([uent introducti n of new plants, as I have 

 rei)eated]3r remarked, is an interesting matter for consideration, and as 1 review these 

 ballast deposits, and detect so many strangers, I feel a re-awakening of that interest 

 which a ramble about our fields and woodlands fails to create. — Is.\AC C. Maiitindale, 

 C'lviden, N. J. 



Notes ox Winter Flouv ok Florida. — Cliristnias day, 1876, found myself and 

 family in the much praised, over-i'ated town of Jacksonville. From Savannah we had 

 been accomp.mied by constant rains, thus giving me little opportunity to dodge out at 

 the stations and secure specimens of Natural History in anj^ dei)artment. In that 

 Jtlecca of Northern travel, Jacksonville, I saw but little of interest to a naturalist in 

 the way of Botany. The Live Oaks and the TiWtndsia wliich shrouds them serve to 

 render the town more pleasant than it would otherwise be. The Mistletoe seems to be 

 ])laying havoc with many of the trees. At tliis season I did not expect to obtain very 

 many flowers in bloom, and a recent frost had destroyed many s])ecics, natural and cul- 

 tivated. Having therefore looked over the city so far as we could in the midst of a con- 

 stant drizzle of rain, we prejiared to leave f(n- a more favored section. St. Augustine 



