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21. Pleasant; clouds uncommonly beautiful. Yellow 

 water lily, potamogeton or floating pond weed, plantain, 

 climbing polygonum and glechoma or ground ivy in blos- 

 som. 



23. Common fleabane in blossom. 



25. Found the broadleaved ledum or Labrador tea, 

 three leaved menyanthes, common avens, craneberry and a 

 handsome species of sedge in blossom, at the bog near 

 Hawley meieting house, a most interesting spot. Observed 

 the common cynaglossum or hound's tongue and the woody 

 nightshade or bittersweet in flower by the road side. 



26. False flax in blossom. 



27. Some of our fields and pastures are now so com- 

 pletely covered with the blossoms of the common ranuncu- 

 lus, here called the yellow weed, as to have the appearance 

 of being wrapt in sheets of gold. 



28. False mustard in blossom. 



29. Red and wild rose, mitchella and a species of panic 

 grass in blossom. 



30. Sage in blossom, and Indian corn beginning to tassel. 

 July 1. Lilyleaved malaxis in blossom. 



2. Flax, motherwort, sow-thistle, mimutlus or mon- 

 key flower and climbing celastrus or safl" tree in flower, the 

 two last on the banks of Westfield river, Cummington. 



3. Blackberried elder, bristly aralia, large aenothera, round 

 leaved mallows and small flowered hypericum in blossom. 

 In the evening a comet seen in the northwest. 



4. Fair. Mullen, common asclepias or milk-weed, 

 fringe flowered orchis and one-sided pyrola in blossom. 



5. Frost this morning. Air uncommonly clear and 

 weather very fine. Found the large flowered raspberry, 

 common hypericum or johnswort, agrimony, Virginia or 

 tall anemone, field thyme, two species of avens and two of 

 galium or cleavers in blossom, on the south side of Deer 

 Hill, Cummington. Spiked epilobium or willow herb and 

 commora nettle, also in blossom. The red raspberry is be- 

 ginning to ripen. 



7. Roundleaved orchis in blossom. 



8. Roundleaved hypericum, Canada or narrowleaved hy- 

 pericum and purple vervain in flower, and currants begin- 

 ning to ripen. Farmers are beginning to cut their grass. 



9. Very warm. Mustard, catmint, buckwheat, common 



