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were gathered. Seedlings and young trees are not uncom- 
mon, and some old stumps were sprouting from the base, in 
the manner of the Californian Redwood. So this species 
may be expected to endure, unless these bluffs should be 
wantonly disforested — against which their distance from the 
river and the steepness of the ground offer some protection. 
But any species of very restricted range may be said to hold 
its existence by a precarious tenure. The known range of 
this species is not more than a dozen miles in length along 
these bluffs, although Dr. Chapman has heard of its growing 
further south, where the bluff trends away from the river. 
At least the Yew-tree grows there, which Mr. Croom found 
with the Torreya near Aspalaga, and I heard of it (identify- 
ing it by the description) as growing five or six miles away. 
Returning to the boat at nightfall, I brought with me thirty 
or forty seedling Torreyas, which, being too far advanced to 
be safely sent far north this spring, have been successfully 
consigned to the excellent Mr. Berckman’s care, at Augusta, 
Georgia. I hope that one or more of them may in due time 
be planted upon the grave of Torrey. 
A word or two of Mr. Croom and his sad fate. His name 
merely is known to botanists as the discoverer of Zorreya 
taxifolia and of Croomia pauciflora, and as the author of a 
monograph of Sarracenia, in which the handsomest species, 
S. Drummondii, was originally described and figured. He 
was the first, after Chapman in 1836, to find this in blossom, 
Drummond having seen and collected the leaves only, in a 
winter visit to Apalachicola. Of the botanists who remember 
and personally knew him, only Dr. Chapman and myself 
survive. Mr. Croom, originally, I believe, of Newbern, 
Lenoir County, North Carolina, had a plantation at Quincy, 
Florida, and another at Mariana, opposite Aspalaga; and it 
was in passing from one to the other that he discovered the 
tree of which I have been discoursing, as well as the herba- 
ceous plant which bears his name. He was an accomplished 
and most amiable young man, full of enterprise and zeal for 
botany, and much was expected from him. But, just as he 
was entering upon his chosen field, and had made prepara- 
