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which al)out completes tiie list of New River at Carter's Ferry. At that date (June 2-13) 

 Phlox )tnbi/l,/itii had gone out of bloom, also Alsine xtricta and Dianthus Armeria. 

 Itiwllid (Ktrcpena?) was not yet in bloom, Baptixia (r>/strali'.s in full flower, Draha ravio- 

 HiHsima in bloom, D. venid, in seed. Nepetu Gleclioma was in infiuite profusion, but 

 miles of country pi'oduced not a single anther cross, all was our sturdy typical Wythe- 

 ville plant. I found some huge leaved plants, but agree with Mr. Forney that all large 

 leaved oiu'k irrefloirerlea.s! Uhua aromaticH was out of bloom, the fruit already turning 

 red. Spininthes cer/mtt was all along the shore. Iris cristata and Phlox reptdns ])oth 

 almost out <jf bloom, Menispermum Canadensein full flower, some vines with good fruit, 

 as good to the taste as an old grape. The most beautiful plant I met was that splendid 

 ornament of the rocky clifl's IlenrJiera, with its dark green, mottled, or purple leaves 

 All clills are beautitied by it, usually along with the spray of Cystopteris, or the festoons 

 of AriHtolorhid Sipho (in flower), or the beautiful Arrqielopsin. Brunella, Pentstemon, 

 C'fislelleia, were all in Ijloom, also Allium cernwun, Hisyrinchivm, Aplertrm/i, liparis, 

 HpirtEa Arn/ifiis, Medeola (with 11 leaves), Arisa'ina Draeontium, Kalinin, Bhododendron 

 m.a,rimum was out of blo(nn. It. C'ntrtiphierbse not yet in bloom. Paehystimn Canhyi at 

 New River and Allisonia had neitlier flower nor fruit, but I had gathered a few good 

 sized fruits at W^'theville Ijefore I left town (June 2). Uoularvi, grand ifioraa nd perfo- 

 liala were both in fruit, the former abundant, the latter rather rare. At Carter's we met 

 with a Sycamore 24 feet in circumference, with two of its limbs, one springing out of 

 the north, the other of the south side, approaching each other on the east side and 

 grafted togcthsr. The tree is hollow and is at times used by travelers as a camping 

 place. While there I found a family of i)igs in po.ssession of it. 



All the Aquilegia I have met with is small in flower and in height, except those I 

 found on New River and in Pulaski County. On these plants, four or five feet high, 

 the flowers were correspondingly huge, measuring nearly two inches. Is the prevailing 

 small vaiiety the common plant, or those very rare ones which are large in size of 

 flower and stem V Tiie flowers are scarlet without and yellow within. To my mind 

 there are three varieties: first, these coarse, heavy giants with dark red flowers; second, 

 our plant at Wytheville, a foot and a half high with intermediately delicate, divaricate 

 branches, and flowers of Ijrighter and prettier hue and more delicate structure than 

 No. I ; third, a diinlnutive variety a foot high, but oftener under that measure, where 

 the yellow interior led me at first to suppose I had a yellow variety, but it was merely a 

 pre])ond('rance of the inner yellow, the exterior being the ordinary red or scarlet. Nos. 

 2 and o inhabit steep hills, or clift" faces, or the upper face and clefts of rocks. No. 1 

 inhabits deep shady woods, or fence corners on the level shores of New River in fine, 

 rich, deep mold, far removed from the habitat of Nos. 2 and 3." 



Plantago majou. — While botanizing this summer I was very much struck with a 

 large patch of common Plantain. The plants were in a moist spot which seemed most 

 favorable for their development and hundreds of them were standing so close that the 

 ground was completely matted with their large leaves. Three peculiarities at once 

 slnick my atteulioii. All the plants had coarsely toothed leaves, branching spikes, and 

 were two or three feet in height. Upon referring to the books I find that the toothed 

 leaves and long stems occasionally occur, and the Gazette has already recorded some 

 branching s])ikes noted by Mr. N. Coleman and Mr. I. C. Martindale. Other patches 

 have since ix-en found and the coarse teeth are invariably present, the branching spikes 

 and great length of scape and spike not always. Neitiicr Dr. Gray nor Dr. Chajnnan 

 give any mcasui-ements. Dr. Beck gives scape 8-12 inches and spike 2-0 inches, while 

 Prof. Wood comes nearer the fads in putting the scape 1-3 feet and the spike 5-20 

 inches. I measured five specimens that I had lirought in, and I had not taken the 



