22 GESTRICKLAND. 



The people here talked much of an ex- 

 traordinary kind of tree, growing near the 

 road, which many persons had visited, but 

 none could find out what it was. Some 

 said it was an apple tree which had been 

 cursed by a beggar-woman, who one day 

 having gathered an apple from it, and be- 

 ing on that account seized by the pro- 

 prietor of the tree, declared that the tree 

 should never bear fruit any more. 



Mai/ 15. 



Next morning I arose with the sun 

 in order to examine this wonderful tree, 

 which was pointed out to me from a 

 distance. It proved nothing more than a 

 common Elm. Hence however we learn 

 that the Elm is not a common tree in this 

 part of the country. 



I observed that in these forests plants of the 

 natural family of bicoriies (with two-horned 

 antheras) predominated over all others, so 

 that the Heath, Erica, in the woods, and 



