144 THROUGH GLADE AND MEAD. 
Uvularia perfoliata, L. Bellwort. 
May 27. Salix lucida, Muhl. Shining Willow. 
go Prunus Pennsylvanica, L. f. Wild Red Cherry. 
Saxifraga Pennsylvanica, L. Swamp Saxifrage. 
Euphorbia Cyparissias, L. Spurge. 
Chelidonium majus, L. Celandine. 
Carex stricta, Lam. Sedge. 
“29. Quercus rubra, L. , Red Oak. 
Fraxinus Americana, L. White Ash. 
Aralia nudicaulis, L. Wild Sarsaparilla. 
Geranium maculatum, L. Wild Cranesbill. 
Maianthemum Canadense, Desf. False Solo- 
mon’s Seal. 
100 Pedicularis Canadensis, L. Lousewort. 
There are seasons when some of the common 
flowers escape us. Catkins, except those of the wil- 
lows, seem to be unusually scarce this year. Of the four 
birches found here, the yellow, the black, the paper and 
the gray, I have found those of the last only, and these 
in very small quantity, where in other years all of them 
were very abundant. The same may be said of some 
other trees. All of them are somewhat behind the 
usual time of flowering, so that the above dates can 
hardly be regarded as the average ones, but should be 
a week or ten days earlier. 
It will be noticed that eighteen of the fifty are trees 
or shrubs. Among the rarer forms in this immediate 
