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branch, but bark like the trunk. They are said to be always hollow. 

 Crossing this swamp we were greeted by a display of Trillium, 

 ( sessile ? ) with leaves most strickingly mottled with brown and 

 green. Pyrus coronaria was also in bloom with roseate flowers 

 worthy a crown. Here the Halesia tetraptera is a shrub ten feet high 

 bloom, with short, bell- shaped white flowers. Yesterday the H. 

 diptera was shown me by Prof. Pond, whose beautiful pendulous 

 flowers, polypetalous, and twice as large as H. tetraptera, are most 

 strikingly distinct from that species, notwithstanding the statement 

 of ToRREY and GrRAY to the contrary. The fruit yet hanging on 

 each tree, two-winged, in H. diptera, and four-winged in H. tetrap- 

 tera, confirmed my belief of their distinctness. Everywhere we saw 

 Vaccinium corymbosum in flower with its perplexing variety. B^ut 

 of our lunch at the Jasper Spring, and our two other interesting 

 excursions, more hereafter. Yours, etc. A. W. 



Savannah Ga. March 30, 1857. 



An account of a more extended and solitary botanical excursion 

 may possess the charm of novelty in the reading as it certainly had 

 with me in its experience. Last Thursday morning as the great 

 town-clock struck 4, I went forth from my comfortable lodgings, and 

 by the light of the street lamps, found my way at length to the De- 

 pot of the " Georgia Central," just in season for the early train. 

 Taking ticket to " Station No. 2," I entered the car, and awaited its 

 motion. I cared not for any sleepy companions nor they for me. 

 Smoothly we glided on in the darkness and in half an hour were at 

 " Station No. 1." and in an other half hour at " Station No. 2." 

 The reader should be informed that stations occur on this and other 

 Southern R. R.'s generally at intervals of ten miles, there being no 

 villages, as at the North, along the route. Here I alighted, twenty 

 miles from Savannah, just as the day began to dawn, in the East, and 

 the train passed thundering on and I was alone ! On the right of 

 the track was a water tank and a wood shed, on the left a one-story 

 unpainted house with a log slave-hut by its side. From the win- 

 dows of the latter a light faintly glimmered, and a black face peered. 

 At the former all was dark and silent. The air was chilly, and I 

 concluded after mature deliberation, to arouse the house. A neat 

 room with a well scoured pine floor, a magnificent pitch-pine fire 

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