18 Expedition to the 



In an excursion on shore, rear the little village of 

 Charleston in Virginia, we met with many plants common 

 to the eastern side of the Alieghanies; beside the delicate 

 sison bulbosum, whose fruit was now nearly ripened. In 

 shady situations we found the rocks, and evtn the trunks of 

 trees to some little distance from the ground, closely cover- 

 ed with the sedurn ternatum, with white flowers ful- 

 ly unfolded. The cercis canasendis, and the cornus florida, 

 were now expanding their flowers, and in some places oc- 

 curred so frequently, as to impart their lively colouring to the 

 landscape. In their walks on shore, the gentlemen of the 

 party, collected great numbers of the early flowering her- 

 baceous plants, common to various parts of the United States. 

 An enumeration of a few of the species most commonly 

 known, with the dates of their flowering, is subjoined.* 



* April 3d. Dentaria laciniata. Lamium amplexicaule. Draba vema. 

 Poa anua. Alsine m^dia. Houstonia cerulea. Saxifraga virginiensis. 



4th- Anemone hepatica. Bepatica triloba of Pursh. Flowers varying 

 from blue to white. Alnus serulata. Carpinus Americanus. Satyrium re- 

 pens, root perennial. 



9th. Collected in flower from the south-west side of the Ohio, San- 

 guinaria canadensis. Hydrocotile bipinnata; root small and round, with 

 small tubers attached to the fibre like radicles, flowers white. Poa brevi- 

 folia. 



13th. Glehoma hederacea; this plant covers not only the low grounds, 

 but the wildest hills, particularly in northern exposures. Is it native? 



24th. Pulmonana Virginica, this is a predominant plant on the islands, 

 as well as along the shores of the Alleghany on both sides. Epigaea re- 

 pens. Phlox aivaricata. 



25th. Corydahs cucullaria. Trillium erectum, flowers varying from 

 dark purple to white. Anemone thalictroides. Carex oligocarpa. 

 Gnaphalium plantagioeum. Potentilla sarmentosa. Obolaria virginica. 

 Acfersaccbannuro, and A. dasycarpum, still flowering. Also the Celtis 

 occidentalis. Ulmus Americana, and Planera aquatica, past. 



27th. Veronica peregrina, and Ranunculus celeratus; both common in 

 the wildest situations and apparently native. 



28th. Stellaria pubera. Turritis laevigata. Arabis lyrata. Viola pu- 

 bescens. Ranunculus hirsutus- Thalictumdioicuni. Cercis canadensis. 

 Cerastium vulgatum. 



30th. Deutana diphylla. Trillium sesile. Mitella diphylla. Delphini- 

 um tricorne. Arabis thaliana. Caulo^hillum thalictroides. 



May 1st. Carpinus wnericanus. Vicia cracca. Ranunculus abortivus. 

 Suifraga Pennsylvania. Uvulaiia ,randiflora. Ph. 



3d. Geranium maculatum. Apple tree flowering. Veronica officinalis 



Dr. Baldwin^ Diary. 



