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violet family in general. In my very brief 

 visit, I was too busy (or too idle, but my 

 idleness was really of a busy complexion) to 

 give the point as much attention as I now 

 wish I had given to it, else I am sure I 

 could furnish the particulars to bear out 

 my statement. At Pulaski, without any 

 thought of making a list, I remarked abun- 

 dance of Viola 2yedata, V. palmata^ and V, 

 sagittata, with V. 2^uhescens, V. canina 

 Muhlenbergii^ and four forms new to my 

 eyes, — V. i^edata hicolor and V. striata^ 

 just mentioned, V. hastata and V. ^9w5es- 

 cens scahriuscula. If to these be added V. 

 Canadensis and V. rostrata, both of them 

 common at Natural Bridge, we have at least 

 a pretty good assortment to be picked up 

 by a transient visitor, whose eyes, moreover, 

 were oftener in the trees than on the 

 ground. 



My single white novelty, V. striata, grew 

 in numbers under the maples in the grounds 

 of the inn. The two yellow ones were found 

 farther away, and were the means of more 

 excitement. I had gone down the creek, one 

 afternoon, to the neighborhood of the second 

 furnace (two smelting-furnaces being, as 



