A PILGRIMAGE TO TORREYA. 1938 
British Museum, in the winter of 1838-9, and then identified 
the genus. There is likewise in Japan a second Croomia, 
very probably in company with the Torreya. A third Tor- 
reya inhabits California, but it has no associate Croomia. 
I have formerly treated of the peculiar distribution of these 
genera and species between the United States and Japan, 
have collocated a large number of equally striking similar 
instances, and have offered certain speculations in explanation 
of them. ‘The views maintained have been more and more 
confirmed, and are now adopted by the leading philosophical 
botanists. ) 
The few hours devoted to this first search for Torreya, 
pleasant as they were, yet were too scantily rewarded to 
satiate my interest. I saw no tree with trunk over six inches 
in diameter, and found no female blossoms. It was necessary 
to hasten back to the railway car, to await the expected sum- 
mons to the steamboat. I bore with me, besides my botani- 
cal specimens, a stick of Torreya, suitable for a staff, which 
I propose to make over to the President of the Torrey Botani- 
eal Club, for the official baton. Before long the whistle of 
the steamboat announced its approach to the landing, and 
offered us a prospect of a much-needed dinner; the water 
had fallen sufficiently to allow us to be conveyed to the wharf 
upon a hand-car, and so we embarked for Apalachicola via 
Bainbridge. That is, we went up the Flint River about forty 
miles and thence back in the night, past the place of em- 
barkation. 
I will not here give any account of a delightful ten days’ 
episode, beginning with the voyage down the brimming river, 
bordered with almost unbroken green of every tint, from the 
dark background of Long-leaved Pines to the tender new 
verdure of the Liquidambar and other deciduous trees in their 
freshest development, interspersed with the deep and lustrous 
hue of Magnolia grandiflora, and, when the banks were low, 
dominated by weird, naked trunks of Southern Cypress (Taxo- 
dium), their branches hung with long tufts and streamers of 
the gray and sombre Southern Moss (Tillandsia) below, while 
above they were just putting forth their delicate foliage. 
