254 BOTANICAL GAZETTE. 
has unlimited sway, is destined, it is to be feared, to ultimate 
extinction. eons ae 
Let us indulge the hope that the interest which is beginning 
to be manifested in regard to the preservation of our forests gen- 
erally, may result in measures statutory or otherwise for its 
preservation. 
SELECTIONS FROM THE BOTANY OF THE REGION OF THE TORREYA- 
Plants peculiar to the Region. 
Calamintha dentata,. Taxus Floridana. 
Carex Baltzellii. Torreya taxifolia. 
Plants not seen by me elsewhere South of the Mountains of Georgia. 
Aristolochia tomentosa. Spirea opulifolia. _ 
Cornus alternifolia. halictrum anemonoides. 
Dentaria laciniata. Trautvetteria palmata. 
Calycocarpum Lyoni Viola Muhlenbergii, var. 
Zanthorhiza apiifolia. 
Plants-not seen by me elsewhere in Florida, ets 
Actinomeris squarrosa. Gonolobus Baldwinianus. 
Archangelica hirsuta Hepatica triloba. 
Bumelia lycioides, Hypericum nudiflorum. 
Carex rosea 
‘ galioides, var. 
Cherokeensis Lupinu 
Halei. 
Clematis Viorna. 
Croomia pauciflora 
Cynoglossum Virginicum. Polygala Boykinii. 
Epigzea repens. Rudbeckia laciniata. 
Euonymus atropurpureus, Sabbatia gentianoides. 
Eupatorium ageratoides, Silene Baldwinii. 
Forrestiera acuminata. Zornia tetraphylla. 
EXPLANATION OF Map.—The localities occupied by Torreya are indicated 
by heavy shading, chiefly along the bluffs. 
Notes on Naiadacer, 
BY THOMAS MORONG. 
¥ PoramMoGEtTon PAUCIFLORUS, Pursh, var. CALIFORNICUS.— 
A vigorous growth, with stems 12 to 18 inches high, flattened oF 
a little winged, half a line broad below: leaves 1 or 2 inches long; 
nearly a line wide, 3 to 5-nerved, the midrib thick and Poe 
siltestesd ey te obtusifolius ; peduncles erect, thick, clavate: “gael 
imes as many as 12 roundish fruits, which se 
crested or undulate and frequently shouldered on the back, ¢0 h 
monly angled on the face, varying from # to 1 line in lengt"- 
