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Shad Bush and Cockspur Thorn, two species of yellow 

 Gerardia, purple Lespedeza, Uvularia, Cow Parsnip and 

 Alisma Plautago. 



Farther on at "Legg's Hill," with its neighboring cop- 

 pices, ponds and runs of water, where among various 

 forms of ferns, sedges and equisetum could be found the 

 Sarracenia with its peculiar flowers and more remarkable 

 leaves ; the Dogtooth Violet, "the yellow bastard Daffodil 

 with spotted leaves" of the pioneer Josselyn, that rare 

 tree the Laurus benzoin, Caltha, Lythrum, Eupatorium 

 perfoliatum, Vicia cracca, Calla, Acorus, Arum, and our 

 only parasite, Cuscuta, with its golden threads and 

 diminutive waxen bells. 



"Great Pasture," a wide and varied territory of rocky 

 wastes, shady water courses and meadow lands, where 

 may still be found many of the plants above named, also 

 Sassafras, species of Sumach, Pyrus, Prunus, and other 

 trees, Ericaceous shrubs in abundance, as species of Vac- 

 cinium, Andromeda, Azalea and Kalmia ; while Cypripe- 

 dium, Bloodroot, Bellworts, Medeola and Convallaria, are 

 a few of the many species to be found in its woods. In 

 its low grounds two species of Lily, two species of Lobe- 

 lia and Orchis, Arethusa, Cymbidium, Rhexia, Hottonia, 

 and others. 



"Columbine Hill," in the Great Pasture, is the same 

 to-day as when Spencer, long absent but not forgotten, 

 wrote that its direction from town might be traced by the 

 scarlet nectaries of the Columbine strewn in the way by 

 the numerous boys returning on "lecture day," with hands 

 well filled with its showy bells. 



"Salem Neck" also had its peculiar flora, Cakile, Sta- 

 tice, Datura, Archangelica, Marsh Pea and Solidago 

 semper virens, the noblest of all the golden rods ; also ob- 

 scure species of the pink tribe and others, without allud- 



