Floral Calendar of Middle Florida. 69 
Arr. VIl.— Botanical Communications 3 by H. B. Croom. 
I. Floral Calendar of Middle Florida, during a portion of the 
year 1833 
Observation ee Middle Florida is understood that tract of coun- 
tty which lies between the Suwanee River on the east, and the Appa- 
lachicola on the west; but the neighborhood in which these observa- 
tions were chiefly made lies about twenty miles west of ‘Tallahassee, 
about thirty miles from the Gulf of Mexico, in latitude about 30° 30’, 
and is more tardy in its vegetation than the country lying east of 
Tallahassee. The country between the Suwanee and the St. John’s 
is still warmer than that between the former river and the Appalachi- 
cola or the Escambia. The wild orange, so plentiful on the St. John’s 
and in the Allachua, is unknown to the west of the Suwanee. At 
_ St. Augustine, the sweet orange is cultivated with success, but the 
attempts to raise it in the interior of Middle Florida have failed. 
On the sea coast = islands they might be successful. 
Abbreviations.—b. for “in bloom.” b. b. for “beginning to Thermometer. 
1833. bloom.” Ph. for Pursh, Nutt. Nuttall. El. Elliott. 9AM. 3P.M. 
Jan. 1-5. Heliotropium indicum b. (at Aspalaga.) ) 
“*  Rudbeckia hirta b. Pine woods.- 
* Houstonia rotundifolia b. Much diffused. 
“  Gentiana alba (White flowered Gentian) ~ 
Wet pine woods. -— 
“  Gerardia (apbylla, Nutt. ?) b. 
*« Some species of Aster in bloom. 
Eriogonum tomentosum b. Dry sandy soils. > 
«Some species of Chrysopsis in bloom. 
Obs. Some of these flowers are to be con- 
sidered as occasional, and not in their regu- 
lar times of appearing. 
*« Some species of Viola begin to bloom. 
*« Nicotiana Tabacum (Tobacco) b. Occa- 
sional. 
Helianthus annuus weenie b. Occa-. 
sional. 75 
Garden peas in bloom. . 
Obs. On the 9th ram occurred, and a violent 
change of weather ensued. morn- 
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