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forty or fifty miles of scenery on account of darkness. From Ham- 
let early the next morning I walked back along the same route 
about a mile in order to study the sand-hill vegetation at close 
range. A little later I took the train for Wilmington, North 
Carolina’s principal seaport, 110 miles away,* and after about an 
hour’s wait there proceeded northeastward to New Bern,{ 86 miles 
farther. On the twenty-eighth I went by the Norfolk & Southern 
Ry. up to Norfolk, Virginia, about 162 miles. The next day I 
went by the C. & O. Ry. from Newport News (just across Hamp- 
ton Roads from Norfolk) to Richmond, 75 miles, and Doswell, 27 
miles farther, then took the direct route to Washington. (Dark- 
ness came on about the time I reached the banks of the Potomac 
at Quantico, Va., the northern terminus of the R. F. & P. R. R.) 
On the afternoon of the thirtieth I went from Washington to 
Philadelphia by the Pennsylvania R. R., but without taking any 
notes, partly because the vegetation along that part of the route 
has been too much tampered with, and partly because it had been 
seen by so many botanists before. On the morning of the thirty- 
first I crossed the ferry to Camden, N. J., and went by rail di- 
rectly east to the coast. Finally, after spending three days in 
the vicinity of Belmar and Tom’s River with Dr. J. W. Harshberger, 
I went on to New York, through a thickly settled region in which 
no botanical notes of importance were obtained. 
The route above described crossed that of 1906 at Fairfax, 
S. C., and Wilmington, N. C., and was tangent to it at Norfolk 
and Richmond. Except in the vicinity of these places the two 
routes were so far apart that in the present state of my knowledge 
of the geography of the Carolinas and Virginia I do not like to 
attempt much correlation between them; but in three of the re- 
gional lists below I have made use of my 1906 notes, in a manner 
to be explained. 
*I traversed the first 32 miles of this, from Hamlet to Pembroke, in November, 
1905, partly on foot. (See Torreya 6: 41-45. 1906). Although less than four 
years had elapsed, I could see that quite a number of changes had taken place along 
that part of the route. The population must have increased at least 10 per cent., 
and the natural vegetation suffered proportionately. 
+The post-office authorities and some of the railroads print this name ‘“‘Newbern,”’ 
but the inhabitants of the city still prefer ‘‘New Bern,” 
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their usage in the matter at present, although the simpler form may ultimately 
prevail. , 
