JOURNAL 



KEPT BY 



DAVID DOUGLAS 



DURING HIS TRAVELS 

 IN NOKTH AMERICA 



ON BEHALF OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY, 1823 

 AND FOLLOWING YEARS 



1823 



June 3rd, LONDON : left Charing Cross by coach for Liverpool. Morning 

 very pleasant ; had rained through the night, country very fine for seventeen 

 miles from the metropolis ; found during time of changing horses Conferva 

 egerops (Ball) confer. Beautiful fields at Woburn Abbey tastefully laid 

 out and divided by hedgerows in which are planted Horse-chestnuts 

 (Aesculus Hippocastanum) at regular distances, ail in full flower ; had 

 a very imposing appearance. Menyanthes nymphoides, 1 for the first 

 time I ever saw it in its natural state. Northampton at 2.30 o'clock P.M., 

 rested 25 minutes ; reached Lancaster quarter to 10 P.M., took supper, 

 started again half past 10, rain during the night ; very cold. Arrived 

 at Liverpool 4 o'clock afternoon. After calling on Messrs. Monal & 

 Woodward and learning that the Ann Maria of New York was to sail 

 the following morning, in which a passage had been taken for me, I 

 arranged my business as to my departure and made for Botanic Garden. 

 Mr. Shepherd received me in the most handsome manner ; showed me 

 all his treasures (of which not a few were from North America). I was 

 particularly pleased with Ferns ; the luxurious appearance of Sarracenia 

 adunca, 2 rubra, flava, purpurea was rather weak. Ranunculus aconiti- 

 folius, which I learn is rare ; Mr. Munro says that he never saw it save 

 in the collection of Mr. Don of Forfar. Andromeda Catesbaei* var., large 

 flowers of a dirty white. Pinguicula grandiflora, growing in a small pot 

 of peat earth, in flower ; Ranunculus parnassifolius, in a border of a north 

 exposure, in the same ; Dentaria bulbifera,* Lilium pyrenaicum not in 



1 Limnanthemum nymphoides, Griseb. in DC. Prod. ix. p. 138. 



2 S. variolaris, S. Wats. Bibl. Ind. N. Am. Bot. p. 40. 



3 Leucothoe. Caiesbaei, A. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. Am. ii. i. p. 34. 

 * Cardamine bulbifera, Ind. Kew. fasc. ii. p. 733. 



