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spergula or tangle weed, and the climbing red flowered bean 

 in blossom ; the last attracts the humming bird. 



12. Found the common sumach, white spirea, panicled 

 andromeda, upright lysiraachia, tuberous cymbidium, white 

 nymphea or fragrant water lily, adder's tongue, arethusa, 

 comarum or marsh fivefinger, common typha and a hand- 

 some species of Scutellaria or skull cap in flower, and june- 

 berries ripe at Goshen bog. The fragrant nymphea grows 

 also at Ashfield. 



13. Weather very fine. Umbelled chimaphila, common 

 stachys or hedge nettle, and knot grass in flower. 



14. Wheat, cockle, spotted polygonum or heart's ease, 

 common gnaphalium or life everlasting, and cud weed in 

 blossom. 



15. Cloudy. Potato in blossom. 



16. Bass wood in blossom. 



17. Maize in blossom. 



18. Spikenard, ginseng, penthorum and coloured willow- 

 herb in blossom. 



20. Nettleleaved vervain in flower. The farmers are 

 busily engaged in hay making. 



21. Cloudy, the sun shining at intervals with a scorch- 

 ing heat. Found the clematis or virgin's bower, tansy, 

 heartleaved lysimachia, hop, yellow nodding hly, impatiens 

 or touch me not, and a dehcate species of veronica in flow- 

 er, the most of them in the meadows at Cummington. The 

 hop grows wild at this place. The spring and summer 

 have been, thus far, very favourable to vegetation ; Indian 

 corn and potatoes, very flourishing; grass, not so good as 

 usual, owing, probably, to the open winter ; peas, fit for the 

 table. Crickets begin to chirp. 



22. Very warm. Found the hydropeltis or water shield, 

 cordate pontederia, sheathleaved dulichium or bog rush, 

 roundleaved drosera or sundew, transparent eriocaulon or 

 pipewort, and a species of prinos in flower at the Crooked 

 Pond. During the latter part of the season, this is a very 

 interesting place of resort to the botanist. 



23. Weather the same. Wormwood, water pepper and 

 pig weed in blossom. The first mentioned plant is natural- 

 ized and very common in this and the neighboring towns. 



24. Found the common amaranth, elecampane, ampelop- 

 sis, sideflowering skull cap, one flowered monotrapa and 



