If you have any verified plant locations (places you've travelled to
yourself) in this area I'd be most interested to know about them. I
am not going to be collecting plants for myself or others, so no requests
please. I am really excited about looking for big stands of _S.leucs_
in the Mobile Bay area. I have some information on locations in the
S. Carolina area, and of course we're going to be travelling up to
N.C. to look for _Dionaea_.
Also on this matter: I am very experienced at hiking in the desert, and so
know about rattlesnakes, gila monsters, various spiders, scorpions, cacti,
bears etc. But the South East U.S. is brand new to me. It is funny that while
everything in Arizona has spines, venom, or pincers, when I get into an
Arizona lake or bog the worst things I have to worry about are treacherous
false lake-bottoms and salamanders. Nothing nasty lives in the wetlands.
But I felt a little _frisson_ when I saw a photo in a Nature Conservancy
magazine of some Southeastern U.S. rattlesnake nestled in a moist bed
of live _Sphagnum._ Any words to the naive about things to avoid in
the South East? Reptiles? Insects? Klansmen?
Bridgett suggested we spend most of the nights camping out, and not in
inexpensive hotels. I reminded her of stories of ticks, chiggers, biting
flies, and mosquitoes that THIRST FOR HUMAN BLOOD.
BAMR