650 TRAVEL IN EUROPE AND AMERICA. [1874, 



Pretty good, the solar protector ! So Fendler is 

 near you. Remember me to the good fellow. 



I wish he had let Cosmical Science alone! But 

 now he never will, and is a gone goose. 



Ever yours, A. GRAY. 



Dr. Gray, being sent away for a cough, made a 

 journey to Apalachicola, Florida, going by Washing- 

 ton, Augusta and Tallahassee, of which and his suc- 

 cessful search for Torreya he wrote a lively account 

 for the " American Agriculturist," republished in 

 his " Scientific Papers," selected by C. S. Sargent. 



He was especially interested in seeing Torreya, a 

 fine tree named for his friend Dr. Torrey, which is 

 only known in one or two localities in Florida, on the 

 banks of the Apalachicola River ; and with some 

 trouble he found it growing, and had the satisfaction 

 of hoping that it was valued enough to be preserved. 

 There is a second Torreya growing in Japan, a third 

 Torreya in California, and a fourth in China. " But," 

 as Dr. Gray says, "any species of very restricted 

 range may be said to hold its existence by a precari- 

 ous 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 

 farther south, where the bluff trends away from the 

 river." 



He went to Stone Mountain in Georgia, a curiously 

 bare, immense mass of stone, one side too steep to 

 climb, but having in clefts some rare plants growing. 

 From Chattanooga he made an excursion up Lookout 

 Mountain, interesting from its reminiscences of " Sher- 

 man's March," and also the habitat of some rare plants 

 he was so fortunate as to find. 



