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tucky, and doubt if they have beeu credited to this State. These are 

 Ilea Virginica and Sfyrax Amei'icana. Both are very pretty, and 

 would be especially handsome in cultivation. They grow, however, 

 in a marsh in sandy soil in woods, so might not prosper in drier soil. 



The prevailing trees near are sweet gum, black gum, Spanish oak, 

 called there " yellow-bottom oak," but in this county (Warren) called 

 " turkey oak; " basket oak, called white oak; and Texan red oak, called 

 spotted oak. 



The woods were bright with Senecio lohatits and in places Silene 

 Virginica fully a month later (June 5th) than in Warren count}'. 

 Carex Asa-Gh-ayi was common, and there were several shrubs of Ilex 

 decidua near the river bank; also a single tree of the new Cornus Priceae, 

 and Primus hortulana. Catalpa speciosa is rather common. The beeches 

 are being cleared and shipped to Evansville to be used in making 

 wood alcohol. 



In Barren county I heard several local names of plants that were 

 new to me: Tangle-foot (white aster); seven-bark (Hydrangea) bark 

 used for bruises, felons, etc.; devil's shoe-strings {Pachysandra)\ nigger- 

 bush {Ailanthus); devil-in-the-bush (wild carrot); saw-brier (green- 

 brier); Robin Eunnel-head {Galium), the four-leaved species used for 

 the bite of a spider, the six-leaved ones used for hives; sang-sign 

 {Botrychium), it being believed by the country people that the apex of 

 the leaf points to a "sang" (ginsing) plant. 



A new lock (No. 5) on Green Biver at Glenmore, Edmonson county, 

 has raised the water some sixteen or twenty feet higher, causing the 

 smaller streams near to be na\dgable. On Bear Creek the sandstone 

 cliffs are from thirty to ninety feet high, and here are many hemlocks, 

 laurel, and other more northern plants. Osmunda regalis, not a com- 

 mon fern in this paii of the country, grows here in abundance, with 

 fronds four and five feet high. Nupliar adveiui, not before collected in 

 this region, grows in the slow stream. Trautvetteria jMlniata is com- 

 mon on the cliffs, while poison hemlock grows in abundance along the 

 lower banks. Fiola hastata is rather common under beech trees and on 

 decayed stumps. 



Bowling Green, Kentucky. 



