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there were large patches of the pretty turquoise blue Agcratum 

 mexicanum, over which hovered scores of beautiful butterflies, some 

 of which I recognized as seeu previously in collections. 



I picked several plant specimens, and when my boys saw my 

 interest they brought me ripe raspberries and many interesting 

 specimens, among them a complete Nepenthes pitcher-plant with 

 three tiny pitchers ; it was growing on the stem of a roadside tree, 

 and now reposes in the herbarium of this museum. It would have 



123. rice Fields in java. 



been possible to collect many fine specimens of the flora on the 

 way down, but it was useless, and recalled sadly my first plant 

 collecting in the tropics, nearly fifty years ago, with my lamented 

 friend Horace Mann, one of Dr. Asa Gray's favorite pupils and my 

 companion over the mountains and through the beautiful valleys 

 of the then almost unexplored (botanically) Hawaiian Islands. 



Down through the villages, where the houses were now open; 

 among them several blacksmiths' shops, where I noticed the bellows 

 of two large bambu stems as cylinders worked by piston-rods in 

 the hands of a boy. Everywhere the children begin to work young 

 and work well. In many a roadside ditch, or a rice pond, mothers 

 were administering the noonday bath to the smaller children, 



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