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In another direction I have not seen this curious little tree 
even as far southeast as Duval County, Florida, but Mr. W. M. 
Canby, if there is no error about his label, collected specimens of 
it in March, 1869, near Hibernia in Clay County, about 20 miles 
south of Jacksonville. 
NyssA UNIFLORA Wang. Occasional from the Carolina side 
of the Savannah River swamp to about five miles northeast of 
Walthourville. In former years I have seen it on the Altamaha 
River down to within about twenty miles of the coast, but it is 
not known in eastern Florida at all, or anywhere near Okefinokee 
Swamp. It seems to grow only in swamps where the water 
fluctuates not less than three nor more than ten feet during the 
"year. 
ILEX MYRTIFOLIA Walt. First noticed just north of Barton, 
in the lower edge of Barnwell County, South Carolina. Frequent 
in cypress ponds the rest of the way to Jacksonville, except in the 
coast region between Hardeeville and Walthourville. Some of our 
manuals credit this to North Carolina or even to Virginia, but 
I have never seen it any farther north than the point just men- 
tioned, or anywhere outside of the range of Pinus Elliottit. 
CLIFTONIA MONOPHYLLA (Lam.) Sarg. Abundant nearly all 
the way through Wayne County, Georgia, between Doctortown 
and Nahunta, a distance of about 30 miles; but not seen elsewhere 
on this trip. It seems to reach its northeastern limit between the 
Ogeechee and Savannah rivers, where it has been observed in three 
different centuries, by Bartram,* Michaux,? Nuttall,t and myself. 
* Travels, 31. 17 
+ In the shale ot André le sotiagaon edited by C. S. Sargent, and published in 
1880, there is th try under date of May 19, 1787, when father 
and son were journeying ‘poner tibia Savannah to Augusta, mostly following the 
fi ground between the Savannah and Ogeechee rivers: 
was vant d’arriver A Beaver Dam [Creek] je recueillis sur la route, étant 
alors a 60 ates de distance d’Augusta, un Rumex arbriss. que je nommeray Lapathum 
occidentale, grand wantin de 25 a 30 pieds de haut. II se trouve aussi nebee: de 
la Oar Altamaha, d’ot n fils me l’'avoit apporté les jours précédents.’ 
f. Sargent ina settee here refers this ‘‘Rumex ried doubtfully to Brunni. 
chia sethon but the occurrence of Brunnichia in such a place (which was probably 
a few miles east of where Sylvania now is) is highly Sane and besides, Michaux 
would hardly have described Brunnichia as a shrub. Furthermore,-it does not 
bloom until midsummer, and in May there would have been little to suggest its 
affinity to Rumex. Cliftonia, however, has green fruit on it in May, and this re- 
