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twelve. Pistils six to twelve. Leaves com- 

 monly two to one stem. 



June 27. 



Near Harns is found a fine handsome 

 blue clay, in some measure fire-proof; also 

 a rare kind of iron ore. 



The corn-fields here produce Echioides 

 (hycopsis arveihsis), and the woods the most 

 slender kind of Equisetum (si/lvaticum). 

 On the river's bank near Laxeden grew the 

 Sorrel whose leaf is cut away in the middle, 

 called Acetosa folio in medio deliquium 

 patieiite, (Rumex digynus,) but it was not 

 now in flower. 



On the other side of the river stands a 

 Pine tree marked with the yearly elevation 

 of the water, as well as its greatest de- 

 crease. In 16*69 it rose eight feet per- 

 pendicular more than the present year, 

 and in I667 it rose stiil one foot higher ; 

 but since that time it has every year fallen 

 more and more short of such an elevation. 

 Not far distant is a mineral spring, which 



