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vicinity, but it covers the rocks at Gloucester, Cape Ann, 

 Plymouth, and a variety of other places, it is held in the 

 highest estimation in Europe, and well deserves it. The 

 fruit is rarely seen, nor do I remember a description of it 

 any where ; it is about the size of a small wood straw- 

 berry, white, pulpy, with divisions like those of an orange, 

 the interstices filled with beautiful small black seeds, the 

 flavor of this pulp is of a most delicate sweetness, which 

 only remains an instant on the tongue, and appears as if 

 formed for the food only of an ethereal humming bird. 



Gualtheria procumbens. — Partridge berry. This is 

 more ornamental in its red-berried fruit than in the flower 

 — it is found every where in the neighborhood. 



Dalibarda ripens and fra^rarioides, the white and 

 yellow Dalibarda, very lively little creeping plants, some- 

 what resembling the strawberry, but the flowers much 

 more elegant from the delicacy of the stamens. Dr. 

 Bigelow says they are found in woods in Princeton and 

 in Hanover, N. H. ; I have not been to these places, but 

 found them plentifully creeping over rocks imbedded in 

 moss in Maine, flowering there in August, here rather ear- 

 lier. [^DalibarcUafragarioides^'i^ now caWe^Waldsteiiia.^ 



Hepatica triloba. — Liver-leaf. This beautiful flower 

 which appears before its leaves in April and May, is found 

 plentifully at Mount Auburn in all its variety of colors, 

 blue, white and pink ; it is indispensable in rock work. 



Thalictrum anemonoidcs.— Rue-leaved Anemone, and 

 Anemone nemorosa — Wood Anemone. The first, which is 

 from 8 to 12 inches high, is found in plenty at Dedham, 

 the other everywhere in woods ; they are white and 

 very ornamental. 



Viola pedata, and others. — These are well known, and 

 as they are early, are extremely desirable to satisfy the 

 impatience of those amateurs who are constantly on the 

 look-out for signs of the approach of their season of en- 



