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that the names of the proprietors of farms have been in many in- 

 stances unaltered. It is easy enough, with this map, to go to any 

 locality in the county, and botanists and amateurs, seeking the quite 

 numerous local plants of this favored region, could hardly go amiss. 



Dr. Curtis' original catalogue enumerated species found within a 

 radius of two miles of Wilmington; but we have extended our search 

 over the entire county, even extending to what is now a part of 

 Pender county, especially including the region of Rocky Point, and 

 of Smithville and Smith's Island, and the part of Brunswick coun- 

 ty immediately adjacent to Wilmington. 



" Wilmington is situated in latitude 34^ 17', and longitude 78° 10', 

 about thirty miles from the mouth of the Cape Fear river, on which 

 it stands, and eight miles from the sea, in an easterly direction. Its 

 precise elevation above the ocean I have not learned,* but it is so 

 small as to deserve little or no consideration in regard to botanical 

 geography. Indeed much of the lowland in the vicinity is but little 

 above the level of the ocean. The climate may be pretty well de- 

 termined from the following table of temperature, made from ob- 

 servations taken in 1832. The thermometer was placed in the shade 

 on the north side of a house. Observations were taken six times a 

 day from 8 and 9 o'clock A. M. to 11 P. M. Fractions omitted : 



Maximum . 

 Minimum - 



Medium 



Rainy days 



Dec. 



68 



27 



50 



5 



f Temperature for Year 1885. 



Maximum . 

 Minimum , 



Mean 



Rainy days 



Dec. 



71 



27 



50 

 9 



*The elevation of Wilmington is twenty-five feet above sea level. 



•j-This report was obtained from the U. S. Signal Service officer at Wilming- 

 ton. The number of rainy days includes all days on which as much as .01 of 

 an inch fell, which probably accounts for the excess of rainy days in 1885. 



