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was chosen for obvious reasons. A ten hours ride by river iuul rail brouglit us to the 

 "Ancient City" as its antiquated people delight to call it. The beauties of the floral 

 scenery of the St. Johns have been so often recounted by admiring tourists that I will 

 say little. There is something of interest to the lover of nature in its grand old Live 

 Oaks, Cypress trees, Palmettoes, and other peculiar forms of the vegetable world tliat 

 ornament the banks in a dense overhanging canopy of green or gray. 



Having said this much in a general way, I will now note such specie's of plants as 

 I found in blossom, leaving for another time mucli that was interesting about the foli- 

 age and hardy parts of a flora that possesses even in its winter dress an exceeding in- 

 terest. At St. Augustine I collected in January, Aster flexuosus, Nutt., abundant on salt 

 marshes; ILmatoma rotitudifolia, 6r., in woody situations; of Ferns, which always at- 

 tract the eye, some species are abundant; on the ro(;fs of houses and trunks of trees, 

 Potypodium incanum, Swtz., and ViU/irin llneatu, Swtz., the latter confined to the pal- 

 metto. In the pine barrens near the city was found Pteris <iqailimi, L., and its variety 

 cnudatn. The list from St. Augustine is meagre, but an examination of my collection 

 will show a large number of species representing the woo.l, foliage, etc 



At Cedar Keys I found a more interesting field by following the footprints of Dr. 

 Garber who collected here last year I believe. The results obtained from Jan. 15th to 

 to Feb. 10th are: On Sea Horse Key, Gelsemium semperoireiis, Ait., CJuiptnlia tomentosa, 



Yent., iSolidago V Phi/salis lancedata, Mx. On the mainland I obtained /**'«.- 



guieula putnila, Mx , Pinguiculn lutea, Walt., Lycium Cdi-oliiilaimin., Mx., both in flower 

 and fruit Borrirhid fndesrentt, DC, the two last on- salt marshes near high tide. The 

 Lyeiuiii I found on both coasts. 



On Way Key, Crotolarin ooaiis, Pursli., Chiocoeca racei/iosa, Jac(i., Aliius semdata^ 

 Ait. On Cedar Key, Vdchellia Faracsimw, W. and Arn. 



The CeratinJa eriroideti, Nutt., and Zaini(t integrlfolin, Willd., are abundant on the 

 main land, and with many other evergreen forms add beauty and variety to the land- 

 scape. 



In the vicinity of Gainsville I secured, Vaccinium coryinhosuia, L., Astragalus: 

 oheordatiix, Ell., Axcyrnni ainplexiradde, Mx., Vaccuiiitui jiiyrsiiiifnK, Mx., Hypoxia 

 crecta, L., Viola sagittata, Ait., Viola primulrffolia, L., PniNUS Carolini.ana, AM., Cor- 

 nus florida, L., Cercis Canadensis, L., Acer rnhnnn., L., Pyrus arhiitifolia, L. var. ery- 

 throearpa, ChapUdia toinentosa, Vent. Of ferns, Asplenium ebemun and Woodwardia an- 

 gustifolia were found near the "sink." The curious Lyropodium aloperuroides and 

 Sphagninnsqnarrosuin, occur in wet, pine barren bogs. The yellow Jessamine exists 

 by millions everywhere, climbing trees to the height of twenty feet or more. The 

 Utriruluria subulata, L., is found at Baldwin in ditches and shallow ponds. 



My observation was that the climate of tlie West or Gulf coast is much more 

 equable and mild, than on the Atlantic slope, a fact which the more advanced state of 

 vegetation, from Cedar Keys to Gainsville fully jn-oves. — W. W. Caf^kin-s, Chicago, III. 



Rkcent Publications. — Contributions to American. Botany, VII. — Descriptions of 

 New Species of Plants, with revisions of Lychnis, Eriogonum and Chorizanthe, by 

 Sereno Watson. 



This is a pamphlet of about 85 pages and shows how busj^ Mr. Watson has been. 

 He has here described nearly 50 new species of plants and has revised three genera, 

 one of them an exceedingly large and difticult one. Lychnis is revised with eleven 

 species belonging to America, five of them being new. One glancing over their range 

 is struck with the fact that cv(!ry one of them, with perhaps the exception of one, is 

 confined to Greenland and high north or to tlie summits of Western mountain jieaks. 

 Prefacing his revision of Eriogonwn, Mr. Watson remarks that s(!ven years only have 

 elapsed since the revision of the Eriogmira^ i)y Dr. Gray, but so many new species have 



