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The following day was devoted to localities north of Jackson- 
ville. We proceeded to Yulee and then branched off toward 
ointed eastern prickly-pear from the ich we 
secured the fi he previous winter.1. The flowers are the 
largest of all of our eastern prickly-pea and ut Fer- 
-pears 
nandino a heliotrope relative—Cochranea anchusaefolia—grew 
all over ae roadsides and vacant lots, just as Phlox Drummondit 
does in many of the ae towns. It is also common . ae sea- 
coast towns of Geo On the sandy ham. s t th 
town we found a ee aa of a are spur ea: ~pear a 
Tracyi) in flower. In this species the flower and the joint from 
which it arises are wholly out of the — ace tee The 
achieved our desanation: On the way we noticed a peculiar 
flag (Iris) in the swamps. Its sepals were dark- alee mee 
the yellow and white bases; the petals were purple, except the 
PS bases, and the styles were purple aa red- 
Associated with the flag was a water-willow 
aries ere pale-violet flowers. A few kinds of flowering 
pla ne adotied the pinewoods; fewer than a dozen kinds were 
i i some with decided color in ee flowers, others 
neutral in coloring. The latter were represented by the black- 
root 2 (Peronalon, white-topped aster Ga. and lobelia 
(Lobel: eee sa). Yellow was nearly everywhere evident 
reed he flowers cf colic-root (Alezris), St. Peter’s-wort 
(sora); end milkwort (Polygala aie ie oe wa: 
ames 
the grass-pink (Linodorun), and ‘the snake-mouth (Pogonia 
divaricata). The last-named plant was present by the acre and 
e Oe interesting of aL ore cited aeve) me it is the 
Pp f the higher 
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only 
1 The ccna of The New York Botanical Garden 
2 Spe s have oe at The New York eee Coes and seem 
to Penis a new spi 
