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of'the Cabbage Palmetto. The golden polypod, as afterwards Seen, was most abundant 
and vigorous on the trunk, 20 to 30 feet from the ground, just beneath and in the shade 
of the spreading Palmetto leaves. We arrived the same day at Mellon ville, located on 
the south bank of Lake Monroe, a quaint old town with little for attraction to the 
stranger. The vegetation, however, had changed, and I was soon located and pros¬ 
pecting for new plants. Many of my former acquaintances appeared, and in better 
collecting condition, but their enumeration will be omitted. The contour and topog¬ 
raphy of the country, the nature of the soil, and the character of the timber, are essen¬ 
tially the same as at Palatka, except the dense Palmetto humniocks replace the maple 
farther north. Here also the dense woody timber skirts the lake, and back of this 
extends the piny lowlands to the piny uplands. On this elevated or salamander land, 
where these vigilant miners display wonderful activity in the construction of a great 
number of diminutive mounts, I added to my list Helianthemum Carolinianum, Mx., 
Stipulicida setacea, Mx., Polygala grandiflora, Walt,, Indigof'era tinctoria, L., Bhynchosia 
' tomentosa , vai\, monophylla, T. & G., and Besmodium trijiorum. The last, as Dr. 
Chapman tells me, is an introduction from the Indies. In the lowlands 
grew Clematis Baldwinii, T. & G., Oldenlandia glomerata, Mx., Pterocaulon pychnos- 
tachyum , Ell., Leptopoda puberula, McBride, Chaptalia tomentosa, Tent., Lygodesmia 
aphylla, DC., Gentunculus minimus, L., Pinguicula elatior, Mx., Grdtiola quadridentata, 
Mx., Buchner a elongata, Swartz, Sdbbatia Elliottii, Steud., Tradescantia prosea, Tent., 
Xyris breoifolia, Mx., Eriocaulon gnaphaloidds , Mx., and Fuirena scirpoidea, Yahl. In 
the drier and more barren of these lands appeared Polygala nana, DC., the dwarf of 
the genus. In the streets of the village were patches in bloom of Vinca rosea, L., and 
Eragrostis ciliaris, Link. Along the lake or river, for the former is simply an expan¬ 
sion of the latter, was found Sagittaria lancifolia, L., and on the muddy flats, Sesuvium 
pentandrum, Ell., Micranthemum Nuttallii Gr., Lippia nodiflora, Mx., and Azolla Caro- 
Iviiana' Willd.f the last, like the Pistia , assuming an amphibious nature, growing 
equally well on the land and in the water. In the adjacent hummocks the vegetation 
was interesting and rich in species, yielding in abundance ancl in good condition S. 
Watson’s variety of Lobelia Cliffortiana, Willd., with Vida mictantha , Nutt., Ilysanthes 
grandiflora , Benth., Micromeria Brownei, Benth:, Eryngium Baldwinii, Spreng., Samolus 
Valerandi, L., var. Americanus, Gr., and Iris hexagona, Walt., with others of equal in¬ 
terest, like Berchemia volubilis, DC., coming in flower, Epidendrum renosum , Lihdl., in 
fruit, Vicia acutifolia, Ell., Leptocaulis divaricatus, DC., Tillandsia bracUata, Chapm., 
with its bright and glossy scarlet bracts, the prolific T.juncea , LeConte, and T. utri- 
culata, LeConte, Myrica inodora, Bartr ,,Aspidium patens, Swz., and Blechnum serrulatum , 
Mx., the last abundant and in fine condition, as well as the Vittaria and^^ the golden 
polypod, previously detected. Near the village of Enterprise, on the north bank of the 
lake, I met Zanthoxylum Carolinianum, Lam., Modiola multifida, Moench., Parietaria 
debilis, Forst., Iresine diffusa, II. & B., and, on the banks of a stream flawing from a , 
large sulphur spring, Hydrochloa Carolinensis, Beauv., in dense mats.—A. P. Garber. 
[To be continued.] 
Catalogue of the Flora of the Wabash Valley below the Mouth of White 
River.— -This .botanical paper, by J. Schneck, M.D., appears in the report of the Geo- f 
logical Survey of Indiana for 1875.' The plants contained in the catalogue are princi¬ 
pally from two counties in Indiana, Gibson and Posey, and one county in Illinois' 
Wabash, although three other counties of the latter State are represented. The region 
embraced is one of the most interesting and well defined botanical fields in the state 
and the many rare plants contained in this list are only what botanists acquainted with 
the topography of the country have expected- Perhaps the most striking physical 
features of the Lower Wabash are the cypress swamps and bayous with their wealth of 
aquatic plants and the barrens af the higher ground. These natural openings covered 
with but scant if any foi’est growth yield our most prized plants, and a very rapid 
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