106 Notice of some Plants of Lyimfield, Danvers, (S)^c. 



Cardinal {Lobelia cardinalis) and its lowly, humble neigh- 

 bor, the purple headed Poly gala sangumea L. 



This region is favorable in its dry wooded and rocky as- 

 pects for the occurrence of the elegant Linn^^a borealis, for 

 several species of Pyrola, Goodyera, and similar plants. 

 Some of the usual lichenes and musci, I observed, and 

 Arctostaphylos (Arb^utus) U^va ursi was gathered at random 

 with others. 



As we approached the sea-coast, and entered the farm of 

 BuRLEY Smith, Esq., in Manchester, we found several 

 friends, who joined us at a later hour, anticipating our arrival, 

 to unite in the afternoon session after the usual repast. Here 

 I found the rocks in the immediate contiguity of the sea, 

 conspicuously radiant with the various lichens, which dare 

 to grow just above high water mark, of which, I particularly 

 noticed Parmelia murdrum, P. saxicola and P. oreina, while 

 the unpainted buildings, such as barns, and the stone walls, 

 were brightened with P. parietina, in several forms. In the 

 loose and heated sand, affording an almost tropical soil, so 

 far as warmth was concerned, were large specimens of that 

 generally diffused and perfectly naturalized East Indian An- 

 nual, whose lurid blossoms and fetid leaves render it as well 

 known as do its deleterious seeds, or its spring fruit, the Da- 

 tura stramonium, variety Tatula. On the wet sands, and 

 stranded by the receding tide, lay the singular and nearly 

 transparent bodies of many MEDusiE, the structure of which 

 served to interest us, when it was exhibited by the aid of 

 powerful microscopes. With the assistance of two of these 

 instruments in the hands of those skilled in their use, several 

 details, both in vegetable and animal anatomy, were made to 

 serve for the pleasure of the afternoon. A few curious spe- 

 cies of Algas were collected, some smaller kinds of mari- 

 time insects, and the many etcetera, which never come amiss 

 to those to whom they are not trifles. 



The route we pursued was a pleasant one in its diversified 

 scenes of bare and rolling hills of diluvium, of wooded 

 swamps, through which the travelled road often lay, of moss- 

 covered rocks, over and among which it anon, winded, the 



