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problem, as to the significance and reasons, still to be worked 
out. 
eavy rains in the uplands had changed the rivers into streams 
resembling ochre paint as they transported the products of 
erosion to the coast. Many miles of the soft-floored flood plains 
of rivers were submerg The necessity of the buttressed 
iis common to t of the hardwood trees in this region was 
vident d plain, even the trees of Elliott's pine 
(Pinus Elliottii) had buttressed trunks—a phenomenon we have 
never noticed elsewhere 
NORTHERN FLORIDA 
Northern Florida was more suggestive of spring time and dis- 
played an almost normal amount of green foliage. The culti- 
vated pear trees were in bloom or just i 
I 
(Bradleia). ‘in full flower marked the sites of old homesteads, 
Bot h i i i 
flowered wild azalea (Azalea oo The high pinelands 
ciation of the native fl ° i nt of cultivating specimens 
of the needle-palm (Rhaphidophyllum) in their front ya 
termittent train-service de us for at River 
tively speaki. the a ither 
furnish light; yet we fared better than did Asa Gray, at the same 
place nearly fifty years ago, when on ‘‘A Pilgrimage to Torreya. 
1See American Agriculturist 262. 1885. 
