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ton the barberry bush, two species of honeysuckle, one of 

 them growing wild, two species of azalea or swamp pink, 

 narrowleaved kalmia, spotted geranium, red top and foxtail 

 grass, besides lilac, snow ball, rye and many other exotics* 



9. Extremely warm; towards night a severe thunder 

 storm. Common iris or blue flag in flower at the same 

 place. The first fire fly seen. 



10. The prunella, small aenothera and delicate krigia in 

 flower at Northampton ; longstalked srailax at Williams- 

 burg. 



12. In the morning, sharp thunder and lightning with tor- 

 rents of rain ; in the afternoon pleasant. 



13. The white flowered oxaHs orstemless wood sorrel in 

 blossom. 



14. Virginia hydrophyllum or burr flower in blossom. 



15. Pleasant. Strawberries which are excellent and 

 very abundant here, are now beginning to ripen. 



16. Warm. Found the red connel, golden senecia or 

 ragwort and threeleaved convallaria in blossom at Cum- 

 mington. 



17. Mountain ash, Norway potentilla and common alsine 

 or chickweed in blossom. 



18. Another species of cotton grass and a very delicate 

 species of spergula in bloom. In the afternoon a thunder 

 storm with some hail; in the night, another tremendously 

 severe, with large hailstones and torrents of rain ; the hail 

 in some parts of the town, so large as to break the glass. 



19. Windy. Found the grape vine, broadleaved kalmia, 

 purple sarracenia or meadow cups, common galium or clea- 

 vers, white weed, large veronica or marsh speedwell and 

 circea or enchanter's night shade in blossom at Cumming- 

 ton. The fantastic sarracenia grows also at Goshen, Ash- 

 field and Hawley. Doctor David Hunt also informed me 

 that he has found at Northampton, numerous specimens of 

 the sarracenia with yellow blossoms. 



20. Very pleasant. The sanicle, small geranium and 

 exquisitely beautiful and delicate hnnea in flower. The last 

 mentioned plant may be found on the margin of a small 

 brook, about a mile east of the meeting house. I have al- 

 so discovered it in the east part of Savoy, on each side of 

 the county road leading from Plainfield to Adams. All the 

 specimens that I have seen, are didynamous. 



