Further southward we found a large-flowered and very showy 
mallow (Hibiscus furcellatus) growing abundantly on the shores 
of a high sand-dune near Eden. This plant was formerly thought 
also to be an introduced exotic, but there now seems to be little 
or no doubt that it is a native. On the same dune we discovered 
two tropical vines, the balsam-apple (Momordica balsamea) and 
a poke-relative (Adgestis clematidea). Both plants were very 
abundant and bore masses of both flowers and fruits. 
Throughout this excursion we noticed remarkably little animal 
life, except birds and lizards, and cast-off skins of snakes (no 
live serpents). The lizards were exceedingly plentiful. They 
are locally known as chameleons on account of their form and 
their faculty of changing color. Baldwin, as well as Bartram,’ 
had better success in observing animals, perhaps their mode of 
travel (not by automobile) was less exciting to the denizens of 
the forests and the prairies, all of which brings to mind several 
paragraphs in two of Baldwin’s letters in which he wrote: 
“One beautiful little Lacerta bullaris has made its appearance 
since I began to write. Like the Chamelion, this innocent little 
creature has the faculty of changing color. Could I only see a 
huge ‘magnanimous’ (Bartram) rattlesnake, it would help out 
my story very much. During 5 years that I have been in this 
southern country, I have seen but one living rattlesnake! But, 
had not Bartram been here before me, I would astonish you with 
my account of the Alligators.2. I should like to wind up this 
interesting botanical letter wi 
I call them by names less vulgar than sand-flies, horse-flies, etc. 
which have been buzzing about me since I began to write.” 
Several weeks later he wrote: 
“T had the pleasing horrible prospect of a living rattlesnake, 
six feet in length. He had the generosity, when unpercetved by 
us, to give the dread alarm; but a sudden leap, I apprehend, 
i William Bartram (1739-1823) was associated from childhood with the scien- 
tific work of his father, John Bartram (1699-1777), the first native American 
botanist. He accompanied his father to Florida in 1763, insisted upon remaining 
there, and settled as a planter on the St. John’s River, where he stayed about two 
years. In 1772 he began the extensive journey in the Carolinas, Georgia, and 
Florida, reported in his published “ Travels.”” He was a a artist of much 
enthusiasm and considerable ability.—Joux HENDLEY BARNHART. 
? Bartram is sometimes accused of drawing the long ae in ae to alligators. 
