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The Rubus with large white flowers has notched petals in shady places. 



(199) Mespilus sp. ; a large tree ; flowers white ; on the banks of 

 river. 



(200) Safe sp., male and female ; sides of lakes and rivers ; abundant; 

 a handsome species. 



(201) Gramineae (?), perennial ; sides of woods ; plentiful. 



(202) Scirpus sp., perennial ; margins of pools, shores of rivers and 

 marshes. 



(203) (?) ; same situations as the preceding. 



(204) Claytonia sp., annual ; a beautiful small slender creeping plant ; 

 frequents moist rocks ; plentiful. 



(205) Heuchera sp., may prove H. caulescens i ; a splendid plant ; 

 plentiful on elevated dry soils.^ S. 



(206) Vaccinium sp., ovatum (?) ; fine evergreen shrub ; flowers 

 delicate white ; where exposed to the sun, faint red ; in open, dry, hilly 

 woods, in conjunction with GauUheria. 



(207) May prove a species of Nyssa in fruit ; a small tree ; on edges 

 of woods and rivers ; abundant. 



(208) Cucurbitaceae ; perennial ; flowers white, no male ones expanded ; 

 leaves somewhat three-lobed, rough ; fruit round, yellow, hairy, three to 

 eight seeded ; seeds orbicular, flat, large ; a strong free-growing plant, 

 with a large tap root 2 to 6 feet long in the ground ; has a bitter 

 pimgent taste ; plentiful in sandy soils. S. 



(209) Astragalus sp., perennial ; edges of woods and rivers ; may be 

 the same as collected already. 



(210) Pulmonaria sp. (?) ; perennial ; flowers blue ; in shady moist 

 woods. 



On my way down the river passed some trees of Acer macrophyllum 

 of immense size, 60 to 90 feet high, 3 to 8 inches in diameter ; the large 

 deeply lobed leaves, with the fragrant raceme of flowers, make a fine 

 contrast with the pines by which it is surrounded. Measured some trees 

 of Pinus taxifolia 3 the roots of which were laid bare by the water, 

 blown down by the wind ; 100 to 140 feet, at the top 18 inches in dia- 

 meter ; many of them exceed 15 and some measure 20 and 25 feet in 

 circumference ; the only two species except P. taxifolia^ are P. balsamea * ; 

 and canadensis 6 ; both far exceed those on the Atlantic side in size. 



(211) Caltha palustris ; rare ; in marshes and sides of rivers. 



(212) Fumaria sp., perennial ; flowers red and purple ; in very shady 

 woods near springs ; two feet high. 



(213) Aspidium sp., perennial ; abundant in aU low moist woods ; 

 marginale ? 6 



(214) Carex sp., perennial ; a very strong species ; plentiful in marshy 

 ground near the ocean. 



1 Heuchera villosa, S. Wats. Bibl. Lid. N. Am. Bot. p. 326. 



" Li another MS. : — ' plentiful on moist rocks where partially shaded." 



' Pseudotsuga Douglasii, Mast, in Jomrn. B.. Hort. Soc. xiv. p. 245. 



* Ahiea balsamea, Veitch, Man. Conif. ed. 2, p. 492. 



' Tsiiga canadensis, Veitch, he. cit., p. 464. 



^ Dryopteris marginalis, Christensen, Lid. Fil. p. 276. 



