JOURNAL 



KEPT BY 



DAVID DOUGLAS 



DUEING HIS TRAVELS 

 IN NORTH AMERICA 



ON BEHALF OF THE EOYAL HOETICULTURAL SOCIETY, 1823 

 AND FOLLOWING YEAES 



1823 



June 3rd. — London : left Charing Cross by coach for Liverpool. Morning 

 very pleasant ; had rained through the night, country very fine for seventeen 

 miles from, the metropolis ; found during time of changing horses Conferva 

 egerofs (BaU) confer. Beautiful fields at Woburn Abbey tastefully laid 

 out and divided by hedgerows in which are planted Horse-chestnuts 

 (Aesculus Hippocastanum) at regular distances, aU ia fuU flower ; had 

 a very imposing appearance. Menyanthes nymfhoides,^ for the first 

 time I ever saw it in its natural state. Northampton at 2.30 o'clock p.m., 

 rested 25 minutes ; reached Lancaster quarter to 10 p.m., took supper, 

 started again half past 10, rain during the night ; very cold. Arrived 

 at Liverpool 4 o'clock afternoon. After caUiag on Messrs. Monal & 

 Woodward and learning that the Ann Maria of New York was to sail 

 the foUowiag morning, in which a passage had been taken for me, I 

 arranged my business as to my departure and made for Botanic Garden. 

 Mr. Shepherd received me in the most handsome manner ; showed me 

 all his treasures (of which not a few were from North America). I Was 

 particularly pleased with Ferns ; the luxurious appearance of Sarracetvia 

 adunca,' rubra, flava, purpurea was rather weak. Ranunculus aconiti^ 

 foUus, which I learn is rare ; Mr. Munro says that he never saw it save 

 in the collection of Mr. Don of Forfar. Andromeda Cateshaei » var., large 

 flowers of a dirty white. Pinguicula grandiflora, growing in a small pot 

 of peat earth, in flower ; Ranunculus parnassif alius, in a border of a north 

 exposure, in the same ; Dentaria hulbifera,* Lilium pyrenaicum not in 



1 Limnwnthemum nymphoides, Griseb. in DC. Prod. ix. p. 138. 



2 8. mriolaris, S. Wata. Bibl. Ind. N. Am. Bot. p. 40. 



' Leucothoe Catesbaei, A. Gray, Syn. H. N. Am. ii. i. p. 34. 

 * Cardamine bulhifera, Ind. Kew. faso. ii. p. 733. 



