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Habitat and Geographic limits. It abounds throughout 

 the sandy and sterile forests of Georgia and South Caro- 

 lina^ always beneath the shade of the Pinus australis^ from 

 the banks of the river St. Mary's in West Florida to the 

 immediate neighbourhood of Orangeburgh (Orangeburgh 

 county, S. Carolina) where it suddenly disappears, no 

 where appearing to have crossed the Santee to the north. 

 In the direction of its longitude it does not descend so 

 low towards the sea coast as Savannah in Georgia or the 

 city of Charleston in S. Carolina, neither is it on the other 

 hand to be met with beyond the terminating line of the 

 ancient maritime soil, so exactly defined by the natural 

 limits of the long leaved pine, which the Eriogonum con- 

 stantly accompanies in all its western limits; thus it dis- 

 appears above Augusta in Georgia, where hills of decidu- 

 ous trees (oaks, hickories, &c.) and primitive soil com- 

 mence, and only again very transiently appears in insulated 

 l^ortions with the Pinus australis, 



(To be continued.) 



NOTtCE OF THE LATE DR. WATFRHOUSE. 



Died on the 18th of May, 1817, at Charleston, S. C. 

 Dr. John Fothergill Waterhouse, aged 26 years. 

 He was born at Cambridge, Massachusetts, and received 

 his classical, and the rudiments of his medical education, 

 at Harvard university. 



The preeminent reputation of the Medical School m 

 this city, induced him to complete his medical education 

 in the university of Pennsylvania, where he graduated as 

 Doctor of Medicine in the spring of 1813. Upon the 

 completion of his studies, and at the solicitation of his 

 friends, he fixed his permanent residence in this city, 

 and soon after became a member of this Society. 



