Monday Dec 18-1911. First ordered around town to see the plants set out in part of the houses, Palms are to be seen in many places that are dug up in the forest and then set of in town. Most of them bear the transplanting trace but many are also dead. One also sees many cycales (Cycas aertuta?) and one in front of the courthouse was finely in fruit. A peculiar cone like cerus surrounded by leaflets that bore small red flowers in nut cases. The entire cetera was about 16 to 18 inches across. One once bark in Palm. Now elsewhere two large shrubs in blossom bearing a red jelly like flower. The commonest flowers were those blood-red headed cane-like plants with tiny composite little flowers in the center. The cellar digging reveal in places a fine white sand but more commonly a yellowish or greenish sand. In one place at the very top occurred a layer from 2 to 4 inches thick made of of oyster and other shells. At 10 o'clock started on the railway for Mayport which is at the mouth of the St Johns River, 26 miles northeast of Jacksonville. As usual the land in as