SCHOPF AMERICAN TRAVELS. 



[I, 466.] We were introduced to still another domestic tea-plant, 

 a variety of Solidago.* The leaves were gfathered and dried over a 

 slow fire. It was said that around Fort Littleton many 100 pounds 

 of this Bohea-tea, as they call it, had been made as long as the Chinese 

 was scarcer. Our hostess praised its good taste, but this was not. 

 conspicuous in what she brewed. 



[II, 19-20.] The most important thing for me at Lancaster was 

 the very agreeable acquaintance which I had the pleasure of making 

 with the pastor of the Lutheran congregation there (and now> Prin- 

 cipal of the new college), Mr. Heinrich Muhlenberg. This excel- 

 lent man, through his own diligence, has gained a very considerable 

 knowledge of natural history and is unwearied in the study of the ani- 

 mals, plants, and minerals of his region. I have reason to regret that I 

 came to know him so late and only for a brief space ; his acquaintance 

 would have been the more valuable to me, and his memory will be all 

 the more cherished by me, since among native-born Americans he was 

 the only amateur of natural science I got to know and could question on 

 that subject. If among his countrymen there were many of his exem- 

 plary diligence and zeal after knowledge, America would soon know 

 better its own productions, and natural history would be greatly en- 

 riched. 



[I, 205.] Mr. Ettwein and Mr. Hiibner are at present the minis- 

 ters [Bethlehem]. The first was absent, but in Mr. Hiibner I found 

 an agreeable and amiable man, and a lover of botany, for which his 

 profession allows him no time. The health of the community is cared 

 for by Mr. Otto, at once physician, surgeon, and apothecary. 



[I, 216.] For sundry observations on the medical properties of 

 certain indigenous plants I must thank the experienced Mr. Otto. It 

 is not generally known that the European juniper-tree grows easily 

 from twigs stuck in the earth, after the manner of most cuttings from 

 leaf-trees. In Mr. Otto's garden are several shrubs grown from the 

 planted twig. 



[I, 281-282.] We collected in this region [Wyoming] several va- 

 rieties of mature seeds ; but I must confess that considering the place 

 and the season we found little that was new. Rattlesnake-root [Poly- 

 gala Senega] grows here in quantity ; also Chenopodium anthelmin- 



*Soi.ir>AGO suaveolens : foliis lanceolato linearibus, integerrimis, acuiis, subquinqnenerviis, 

 punctatis, glabris, tenerrime ciliatis Virga aurea Americana, larraconis facie I't sai ore, pHnicula 

 speciosissima Pluk. aim. p. 389. tab. 116, f. 6 A species similar lo this grows abont New York, and 

 has a pleasant odor of anise, noticeable also in the plant here, but weaker; no doubt because it was 

 already late in the season and it had suflered from the cold. 



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