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26. Windy and cold ; in the morning a beautiful rain- 

 bow. 



27. Dwarf cornel and hispid gaultheria in flower. The 

 latter is sometimes used by the common people as a substi- 

 tute for tea. 



28. Clear and cold. This morning the ground is white 

 with frost. 



29. Frost this morning. 



31. Our orchards are now in full bloom. 



June 1. Large convallaria in flower. 



2. Pleasant. Found the red oak, butternut, choke cher- 

 ry, common ranunculus, clustered and umbelled convalla- 

 ria, veratrum or poke root, water erysimum, trientahs, wa- 

 ter cress and a beautiful species of gooseberry bush in flow- 

 er, the most of them on the banks of Westfield river, Cum- 

 mington. The delicate trientalis is the only native plant, 

 that we have of the seventh class. 



4. Visited the bog in Goshen, where I found the black 

 chokeberry, the glaucous kalmia, the dwarf and rosemary 

 leaved, andromedas, a species of eriophorum or cotton 

 grass, the stemless cypripedium or lady's slipper, and two 

 species of vaccinium in flower. To the botanist this is an 

 interesting spot, and I would take the liberty of recommend- 

 ing it with emphasis to the attention of botanists. The 

 pine, larch, mountain ash, sarracenia and many other very 

 interesting trees, shrubs and herbaceous plants grow here. 

 This bog is about three fourths of a mile east of Keith's 

 Hill in Cummington. Observed the thorn bush and two- 

 leaved convallaria in blossom by the road side. 



5. Sarsaparilla in blossom. 



6. The redberried actea or baneberry, medeola or Indian 

 cucumber, white clover and strawberry blite in flower. The 

 white clover is the shamrock of the poets. The strawber- 

 ry blite grows wild in this place. I have also observed it a 

 few yards from the sulphur spring at Ballston Spa. 



7. Very warm; towards night a thunder shower. Black 

 cherry tree, blueyed grass and common sorrel in blossom. 



8. In riding to Northampton, I observed in flower at Go- 

 shen the yarrow, celandine, yellow oxalis, or upright wood, 

 sorrel and raspberry bush ; at Williamsburg the locust tree, 

 high blackberry and thimble berry, garden and wild colum- 

 bine, red clover and common potentilla ; and at Northamp- 



