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and it resembles C. urbicum in the slender, erect, somewhat 
branched, nearly naked racemes, that bear a few small leaves 
amongst the lower clusters only. It is more branched and spread- 
ing than either of the two, or, indeed, than in any of the upright 
forms of the European C. rubrum that have come under my notice, 
which it was pronounced to be (I am sure erroneously) by some 
botanists of the town to whom I showed it at a meeting of the 
Horticultural Society of Philadelphia. The only specimens I col- 
lected for examination, picked at the entrance to the wharves 
and woodyards of Kensington, where it occurs frequently, are in 
the hands of my valued friend, John Carey, Esq. of New York, 
in whose instructive society I spent many most agreeable hours 
when in that city, and which I shall ever regret untoward circum- 
stances should have debarred me from again enjoying on my return 
thither. I requested this gentleman, whose zeal and labours in the 
cause of botany are well known, both in his native and adopted 
country, to examine the species, which I have not seen in frui, 
the plant having quite disappeared when I sought it again for that 
purpose in the November following. 
At eight, p.m., I accompanied Mr. James to the monthly even- 
ing (promenade) meeting of the Pennsylvania Horticultural So- 
ciety, held in a room of noble dimensions, in a building known 
as the Chinese Saloon, at the corner of Ninth and George Streets. 
The meeting, which was highly interesting, was numerously at- 
tended, and the show of flowers, plants, fruit, and vegetables, very 
respectable and tastefully displayed, whilst from this, as not bemg 
one of the Society’s great exhibitions, it might be safely inferred —— 
that on the latter occasions, a rich treat would be afforded to those 
interested in horticultural science. | 
August 18th. Set off at seven, A.M., with Mr. James, on ® 
botanizing excursion to Quaker Bridge, a spot in the Pine Barren® : x 
of New Jersey, remarkable for the number of scarce or | 
plants there congregated. We crossed the Delaware to Camden —— 
a populous village on the Jersey shore opposite the city, whee à 
had engaged a kind of four-wheeled vehicle, called here a waggon, | 
but in its extreme lightness of construction and general arrange 
