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13. Old venga right shore of Lake Munroe. 
sia Outlet of Lake ee right bank. 
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16. Blue Spring, once bank. 
17 &18. Two mounds in the woods below Blue Spring, with a wide 
Swamp between Sa and the river. A third but small mound was found 
19. Mound above Hawkinsville, left bank rains: and still ought to 
be called Osceola, or, as Dr. Brinton writes the name , Ass-se-he-ho-la, 
SEN Sun, after the celebrated chief who was ERVEN in the Florida 
“2, Mound below preceding, left bank, having the usual appearance of 
the other Shell-heaps, but in which we failed to find signs of its artificial 
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p 2, Rope s Island, ones bank, entrance of Lake Geor 
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Pow eons Island, now Rembrandt's Island, at the outlet of Lake 
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: 29. Horse e Tanding, right bank, eight miles above Palat 
a 8B, ùlatka, left bank, one hundred miles from the Sail ‘of the river. 
L. St. John’s si right bank, five miles from the mouth of the river. 
82. Old and New Fernandina, at the northern end of Amelia Island. 

THE POTATO-MOULD. 
BY JOHN L. RUSSELL. 

7 Mour. ULD and mouldiness are two words with which every 
one j s familiar, but few are aware how numerous and diver- 
_ ‘te the forms under which the little plants these words 
ana occur, and to what extent is the mischief they 
casion, op know much of the utility in the plan of nature 
they Sustain, 




ted > Science of botany as such does not date back very 
in its place and prior to its existence, all vegetable 
Was regarded with a superstitious, and in most cases 
