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vicinity, but it covers the rocks at Gloucester, Cape Ann, 
Plymouth, and a variety of other places, it is held in the 
highest estimation in Europe, and well deserves it. The 
fruit is rarely seen, nor do I remember a description of it 
any where; it is about the size of a small wood straw- 
berry, white, pulpy, with divisions like those of an orange, 
the interstices filled with beautiful small black seeds, the 
flavor of this pulp is of a most delicate sweetness, which 
only remains an instant on the tongue, and appears as if 
formed for the food only of an ethereal humming bird. 
Gualthéria procimbens.—Partridge berry. This is 
more ornamental in its red-berried fruit than in the flower 
—it is found every where in the neighborhood. 
Dalibarda répens and fragraridides, the white and 
yellow Dalibarda, very lively little creeping plants, some- 
what resembling the strawberry, but the flowers much 
more elegant from the delicacy of the stamens. Dr. 
Bigelow says they are found in woods in Princeton and 
in Hanover, N. H.; I have not been to these places, but 
found them plentifully creeping over rocks imbedded in 
moss in Maine, flowering there in August, here rather ear- 
lier. [Dalibardia fragarioides, is now called Waldstenia. | 
Hepatica triléba.—Liver-leaf. This beautiful flower 
which appears before its leaves in April and May, is found 
plentifully at Mount Auburn in all its variety of colors, 
blue, white and pink; it is indispensable in rock work. 
Thalictrum anemondides.—Rue-leaved Anemone, and 
Anemone nemorosa—Wood Anemone. The first, which is 
from 8 to 12 inches high, is found in plenty at Dedham, 
the other everywhere in woods; they are white and 
very ornamental. 
Vidla pedéta, and others.—These are well known, and 
as they are early, are extremely desirable to satisfy the 
impatience of those amateurs who are constantly on the 
look-out for signs of the approach of their season of en- 
