THE MAGAZINE 



OF 



HORTICULTURE- 



MARCH, 1850. 



ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



Art. I. Notice of some Plants of Lyniifieldj Dmivers, 

 Manchestei', 4*c., ^c, Essex County, Massachusetts. By 

 John Lewis Russell, Professor of Botany and Vegetable 

 Physiology to Massachusetts Horticultural Society. 



The twenty-fourth of July, 1849, was a bright, sunny 

 day, with an atmosphere rendered delightfully refreshing by 

 a fine southwestern breeze. By previous arrangement, a 

 number of amateurs and lovers of natural history, set out 

 from the goodly city of Salem, provided with such apparatus 

 as best subserved the purposes of the different tastes that 

 might be found in a mixed company. Of these, were disci- 

 ples skilled in that gentle craft, which the simple-hearted 

 Izaak Walton has immortalized, bent on liuing the finny 

 tribe from their watery haunts ; and others, with cork, box, 

 and net, to capture insects, from the vile bug, to the gor- 

 geous butterfly ; while others still, were ready for never so 

 rough a scramble through fen and moor, and over crag and 

 rock, in quest, now of some little plant, and then, as the case 

 might be, of some wide extended prospect, which was to be 

 gained by exertion of muscle and by dint of patience. 



The scene of this second exploration of the season, under 

 the auspices of the Essex Institute, of whose previous labors 

 in the field, you may find an account, if you will, reader, on 

 the 289-295 pages of the volume for the last year, was laid 

 out in the vicinity of the hospitable mansion of the Hon, 



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