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mint or | abiate—Conradina canescens—which is confined to the 
ile Bay to Tampa B 
times calle ckwheat-tree on account of the fruits which 
resemble buckwhea’ t umber of individuals this vastly 
outranks its dy associates. It flowers before the new leaves 
less myriads, not only of white flowers, but of flower-clusters, 
like banks and hills of snow. 
Associated with the titi, but quite insignificant, is a southern 
willow (Salzx longipes) seen here in flower by us for the first 
time. It gives quite a different impression from the willow of 
li 
s now active, both superterranean and subte ex- 
cursion planned for the es had to be deferred for lack 
of time i anny r comprises the section of the 
hipola River ere, sometime ago, the bottom fell out, and 
the region is still sinki The trees that once stood on 
river ban the neighboring swamps ar ing more and 
more submerged, some of them not only still standing up under 
the water, but stil! festooned with their streamers of Florida- 
moss (Dendropogon). 
is whole vast country—for sixty years the home of Doctor 
A. W. Chapman, in his time the most active botanist of the 
South, is stil practically eee one During the 
yielde Wg and sc 
of new species, many of them of oe oe and 
interest. 
With all this in mind we were loath to leave Apalachicola, but 
early in the morning after we had secured our prize, the Chapman 
honeysuckle, we embarked on the “Crescent City” for Carra- 
