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came in he was very pale, and at once became very 

 sick and was sick most of the night. 



We had a miserable place, an irregular rock, eight or 

 nine feet long, 5 or 6 feet wide with a pot hole in the 

 middle, and not more than a foot above water, and 

 quite wet. and we slept but little. Soar was a little 

 better the next morning and he and I made our way to 

 Camp Jackson, while Eaton went back and got the 

 stuff he left in the glades. 



Xot far from Camp Jackson I discovered a lovely 

 little fern in a pot hole in the pine woods, a Davallia- 

 In a hammock on our right we found a new Tcctaria, 

 smaller and simpler than trifoliata, a Polypodium 

 close to phyUiditis, with shorter, broader fronds, and a 

 longer stipe, a peculiar Trichomancs looking like a 

 liverwort and a dwarf Nephr odium, perhaps. Eaton 

 found here an Oncidium with long narrow leaves and 

 a rive foot scape of very pretty flowers, partly epiphytic 

 and partly terrestrial. We had seen this before but 

 not in bloom. Eaton also found several terrestrial or- 

 chids, new to the Lnited States, probably a number 

 of these are already described from the West Indies. 



Eaton is a splendid man. jolly, energetic and made 

 of steel, full of resources and an excellent collector. 

 Soar and I are pretty well used up. It was a hard trip 

 for a man nearly 58, and I doubt if I could go through 

 it again. But all the fatigue and hardship will soon 

 fade away while the memory of lovely Paradise Key 

 will remain as long as I live. 



Eaton found a few plants of ChcirogJossa pahnata, 

 on a former trip at Snapper Creek. It has been cold 

 here, two frosts, one of which nipped some of the leaves 

 and undergrowth of small plants that are strictly tropi- 

 cal. We found marks of the frost at Camp Jackson." 



Lemon City, Fla. 



