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in Lafayette county. From the mound we had a good view of the 

 Mississippi, which we estimated was about twenty-six miles away. 



Another afternoon we traveled down route 80 to Cuba City and 

 Hazel Green, and on across the Illinois line for a few rods. Down this 

 way we found new material, not formerly found on the trip. Great 

 patches of Rattlesnake Master (Eryngium aquaticum) were in bloom, 

 and Helianthus of several species were coming into bloom. We were 



Fig. 75.- 



-Tiiffa P'alls on Blockhouse creek, near Platte- 

 ville. Grant Co., Wis. 



in historic country and regretted we did not have more time to make 

 photographs, but there was so much to collect that it took all our time. 

 Tuffa Falls on Blockhouse Creek, four miles south of Platteville, 

 was an interesting and picturesque collecting ground in a virgin forest 

 of eight hundred acres. 



