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perature forced us to temporarily seek the hospitality of a tur- 
pentine still to get warm and d clothes iong the way 
we reluctantly passed by many interesting and tempting plants, 
particularly hepatics, mosses, lycopods, an Le 
Tallahassee on the eastbound afternoon train, by means of 
several varieties of railroad transportation, I reached Gaines- 
ville I in the night. 
The following morning I was met by Professor P. H. Rolfs, 
Director of the State Experiment Station, and in company with 
Major Bayard F. Floyd, professor in the University of Florida, 
we set out in quest of a species of Zamia which had been reported 
from the vicinity of Gainesville and neighboring towns. There 
Zamia occurs farther north than we should expect to find it and 
well outside of the geographic range usually attributed to the 
two well-known in Florida. Professor Rolfs located a 
the north during the cold spell of the early part of January, and 
were killed freezing. 
Cacti had not been in evidence since I left Apalachicola; but 
through the discovery of three fruits remaining on a tree and a 
number of seeds on the ground around the base of the tree where 
they had been overlooked or rejected by the razor-back hog gS, 
J. A 
Okeechobee region about that time and whom I had requested 
to collect persimmons for me, says: ‘I could not find persimmon 
