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ing to marine plants that grow within the wash of the sea. 

 A remarkable specimen of the shrub])y and rare form of 

 Rhus Toxicodendron or poison ivy, may still be seen at 

 Junijjer, among rocks jutting over the sea ; its usual 

 form being that of a slender rambling vine. 



"North Salem," however, with its numerous fields and 

 old stone walls, stretching toward "Dan vers" that was, 

 on the one side, and on the other with points and bays 

 bordering the sea, in its variety of surface and of soil, 

 was richer in wild plants than any other section of the 

 suburbs. 



"Cole's Hole and Barr's Pasture," furnished Uvularia, 

 Arum, and Geum rivale, two Osmundas, and other ferns. 



"Paradise," including Harmony Grove, not then de- 

 voted to its present sacred use, abounded in Columbines, 

 Ranunculus and Violets, two species of Geranium, Gen- 

 ista tinctora of the Puritan dyer's memory, Sileue inflata, 

 Dianthus armeria, our only American pink, and that per- 

 haps a strayling from Europe ; also many other plants, 

 and some quite rare. ' "Orue's Point, Cold Spring and 

 vicinity," before Kernwood was appropriated, had climb- 

 ing over its old walls, Clematis, Bitter-sweet, Thornless 

 Smilax, Roxbury waxwork. Native Grapes and other 

 vines, while scattered over its surface could be found 

 Comandra, Ceanothus, species of Polygala, Sanicula, 

 Marsh Pea, Wild Onion, Erigeron Philadelphicum, spe- 

 cies of Convallaria, Gerardia flava, Gentiana saponaria, 

 Corydalis glauca, Veratrum viride and Erythrouium 

 Americanum. 



But no limited locality of the neighborhood at all com- 

 pared with that portion of "North Fields" known as 

 "Dark Lane," which extended from the corner of Avhat 

 is now School and Grove streets, to Central street in 

 Peabody, and which several years since was straightened, 



