32 BOTANICAL GAZETTE, [ Feb. 
men, The knowledge which he displayed, and the value and 
simplicity of the improvements which he proposed, secured the 
universal adoption of his suggestions and crowned him with a 
suecess aha. unparalleled in the annals of science. 
Notes on the Flora of Eastern Virginia. 
LESTER F. WARD. 
While engaged in making a geological reconnoissance through 
the State of Virginia, and as far south as the Roanoake river in 
North Carolina, during the month of August of the present year, 
I made a few botanical notes, usually without collecting speci- 
mens, except where the plant was doubtful or specially desirable. 
The terrain to be studied forms a narrow belt, rarely over fifteen 
miles in width, and extends in a direction slightly west of south 
from. Washington, following the Potomac river as far as Aquia 
Creek, passing through Fredericksburg, Richmond and Peters- 
burg, from which point it was barely traceable to Weldon, North 
Carolina. It is the newer or younger Mesozoic of Rogers and 
Fontaine, or Potomac formation of Mr. W. J. McGee, of the 
United States Geological Survey, and contains several ‘beds of 
fossil plants which were the special object of my investigations. 
“sogmarined age the flora of Washington and vicinity 
rendered it both easy and interesting to note the more conspicu- 
ous changes whioh. the flora undergoes in passing southward, and 
my notes were almost wholly confined to this aspect of the ques- 
tion. They were usually taken from the carriage, without stop- 
ping to make special researches, and it is therefore very evident 
that the species enumerated below can form only a small part of 
the whole num which a thorough investigation of the locali- 
ties named cee show to exist as marking “the differences be- 
noted as well as that of the appearance of entirely new forms. 
The arboreous vegetation, as being the most striking as well as 
the most important, naturally claimed special attention, but the 
more humble forms were not alae: Meager as my notes 
are, however, I find it necessary to omit many minor points, in 
order to restrict this article to sich limits as I presume to be 
suitable to the pages of the GAzETT 
