2 FIELD AND FOREST. 



in the sand, Mcdicago metadata, Festuca myurus, Hordeum pratensc, 

 were found, a speciemen of Ilex opaca measured 5 10' in circum- 

 ference. 



The afternoon was devoted to Hampton, and on the road thither 

 one little pool furnished Ranunculus sceleratus, pusillus, hederaceus, 

 the last thoroughly naturalized, while along the roadside and over the 

 fields Ranunculus pauciflorous was very abundant. Crataegus coccinea, 

 was found in thickets, Senecio tomentosa was very common and very 

 showy in the fields ; along the roadside, Fedia olitoria ; in swampy 

 localities the beautiful flowers of Amaryllis atamasco were very con- 

 spicuous, and in the woods Primus chicasa, and Euphorbia were de- 

 tected. 



At Hampton we found a congenial companion, in the person of 

 Mr. Geo. Dixon formerly Principal of an Agricultural School at 

 Ayton, England. He has paid considerable attention to conchology, 

 and entomology, has published a catalogue of five hundred plants 

 collected in the vicinity of Hampton. Monday morning we started 

 for Portsmouth and thence via Seabrook and Roanoke R. R. , for Suf- 

 folk, the train starting only an hour and a half after the advertised 

 time. Soon we began to see patches of of cane-brake, Arundinaria 

 tecta, and every now and then to run across, acres of swamp alternat" 

 ing with arable land. 



Seventeen miles brought us to Suffolk at the head of navigation on 

 the Nansemond River, a neat well-built, thriving looking little village, 

 with abundance of shade trees, and the trunks of the Elms covered 

 white fronds of Polypodium incanum. After much effort to overcome 

 the inertia of Suffolk life, by the kind assistance of a "servant of the 

 public," in the guise of a village official, we laid in our stores, and 

 started in a one-horse cart for the "Jericho Canal" three miles dis- 

 tant, finding Vicia hirsuta, on the way. 



Here we encountered the prince of boatmen in the shape of Uncle 

 Eli Chalk, (while his name is Winslow,) the same who successfully 

 piloted Port Crayon, over the same route some years ago, In a large 

 cypress "dugout" we three with all our traps bestow ourselves com- 

 fortably, and uncle Eli starts along the towpath propelling our craft 

 by means of a pole made fast at right-angles to the boat. We soon 

 found ourselves amid a Flora full of interest, " Gum " and " Cedar " 

 swamps alternated and with each was connected a different vegetation. 



