
          is a smaller tree, but never, I think, a [crossed out: creeping]
prostrate shrub. I cannot think it is Taxus 
canadensis, and my opinion was that it is a
Podocarpus, the nuts being about half immersed
in a dry receptacle. But I have never 
seen the berry of a Taxus, and therefore speak 
with diffidence.

It grows (along with the other tree) on Flat
Creek, near Wilson's Mill. I had not an 
opportunity of visiting it this spring. (Flat 
Creek falls into the Apalachicola near Aspalaga.)
The Croomia had only begun to flower- consequently
I could not get the fruit. I would have asked
some one to watch the plant and get the fruit, 
but I considered [added: it] hopeless. In some of the specimens
the germs had somewhat enlarged, and I 
hope you will be able to make out the nature
of the fruit. The germ showed a suture? in the
middle, indicating it to be bipartile, and there
were the ebryoes of several seed. It has four
stamens, the petaloid calyx is [crossed out: depply] deeply 4
parted, the segments acute, at length reflected, 
stained about their base with purple, the stamens 
or filaments are also of a dark purple, the anthers
yellow- reminding me of Trillium sessile, and 
certainly pertaining, as you first said, to the order Smilaceae. [Smilacaceae?]
        