Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club Volume 47

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 Excerpt: ...papers, and I can add no facts of importance about it. No doubt some of the characteristic species can be found at isolated stations farther east (though I have looked in vain in the botanical literature for any definite information on that point), but for all pract'cal purposes the ranges of many must terminate right there. This difficulty is much like that of a taxonomist who monographs a genus or family and finds a few specimens that cannot Ik referred to known species but cannot be described for lack of information about some of their essential characters. tin this connection see the chapter entitled "Bewilderment" (pp. 96-103) in Bradford Torrey's book "Nature's Invitation" (Boston, 1904), which describes the author's first experience with the subtropical flora near Miami. There is one plant of that neighborhood which deserves special mention here, however. From Palm Valley to Austin, some twenty miles, the International & Great Northern Ry. runs practically on the fall-line, and along there, as well as in a few other Fig. I, . Map showing approximate location of the regions described herein and routes of the author in 1915 and 1918. Scale about i to 4,700,000. or 75 miles to the inch. places near Austin, a small species of Tillandsia was conspicuous on the branches of live oaks. By Texas botanists this has been referred without question to T. recurvata L., but it differs from that species as represented in Florida in being more densely tufted, and especially in its environment. It has been made the subject of a special study by Willie I. Birge, with a map of its The anatomy and some biological sic aspects of the "ball moss," Tillandsia recurvata L. Univ. Texas Bull. 194. 24 pp., 10 pis. "Aug. 8. 1911." (Appar...