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of the district knew it by the name of “ Stinking Cedar” or 
“‘Savine’’—the unsavory adjective referring to a peculiar 
unpleasant smell which the wounded bark exhales. The tim- 
ber is valued for fence-posts and the like, and is said to be 
as durable as red cedar. I may add that, in consequence of 
the stir we made about it, the people are learning to call it 
Torreya. They are proud of having a tree which, as they 
have rightly been told, grows nowhere else in the world. 
My desire for a sight of it was soon gratified. Making our 
way into the woods north of the railroad track, along the 
ridges covered with a mixed growth of Pines and deciduous 
trees, I soon discerned a thrifty young Torreya, and after- 
wards several of larger size, some of them with male flowers 
just developed. 
As we approached the first one, I told my companion that 
I expected to find under its shade a peculiar low herb, which 
I described, but had never yet seen growing wild. And there, 
indeed, it was, — greatly to the wonderment of my companion 
— the botanically curious little Croomia pauciflora, just as it 
was found by Mr. Croom, when he also discovered the tree, 
nearly forty years ago, probably at a station several miles 
farther south. I was a pupil and assistant of the lamented 
Torrey when Mr. Croom brought to him specimens, both of 
the tree and of the herb, both new genera. The former, as i 
have stated, was named for Dr. Torrey by his correspondent 
Arnott. The latter was dedicated to its discoverer by Dr. 
Torrey. I well remember Mr. Croom’s remark upon the oe- 
easion, that if his name was deemed worthy of botanical 
honors, it was gratifying to him, and becoming to the circum- 
stances, that it should be borne by the unpretending herb 
which delighted to shelter itself under the noble Torreya. It 
is not, as Mr. Croom then supposed, exclusively so found; 
for it grows also in the central and upper portions of Alabama 
and Georgia, where Torreya is unknown, but where I fancy 
it may once have flourished. I cannot here detail the reasons 
for this supposition. 
There is a second Torreya in Japan, founded on Thunberg’s 
Taxus nucifera, of which I saw original specimens at the 
