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21. Pleasant; clouds uncommonly beautiful. Yellow 
ter lily, potamogeton or floating pond weed, plantain, 
ctinbing polygonum and glechoma or ground i ivy in blos- 
som. 
23. Common fleabane in blossom 
25. Found the broadleaved edit or Eaberder* tea, 
Hawley meeting house, a most interesting spot. Observed 
the common cynaglossum or hound’s tongue and the woody 
ihtshade or at ee in flower by the road side. 
' 26. False flax in 
27. Some of our “fields and pastures are now so com- 
pletely covered with the blossoms of the common ranuncu- 
lus, here called the yellow weed, as to ote the appearance 
of being wrapt in sheets of gold 
28. aoe mustard i in bloss 
29. wild Pose; mitchell mee a species of panic 
grass in in blossom. 
a in blossom, and — corn Bepiiniiie to tassel. 
July 1. Lilyleaved malaxis in blossom 
ax, motherwort, sow-thistle, ramets or mon- 
key flower and climbing celastrus or saff tree in flower, the 
two last on the banks of Westfield river, Cummington. 
3. Blackberried elder, bristly aralia, large enothera, round 
leaved mallows and small flowered hypericum in blossom. 
In the evening a comet seen in ie northwest. 
. Fair. “Mallen, common asclepias or enithsyded, 
fringe flowered orchis and sheuided pyrola in blossom. 
rost this morni Air uncommonly clear and 
weather very fine. Found the large flowered raspberry, 
common hypericum or johnswort, agrimony, Virginia or 
tall anemone, field thyme, two species of avens and two of 
alium or cleavers in blossom, on the south side of Deer 
Cummington. Spiked epilobium or willow herb and 
mmom nettle, also in ‘blossomn. The red raspberry is be- 
0 ripen. 
dleaved érehiet in blossom. 
Aoundleaved hypericum, Canada or enideAcuvell ray 
C ined purple vervain in flower, and currants begin- 
ning to ripen. © Farmers are beginning to cut their grass. 
"9. Very warm. Mustard, catmint, buckwheat, common 
