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iccted here the beautiful vexillaiia* virginica of Eaton, 

 which has the largest flower of any of the legumiua of the 

 United States, as is I'emarked by Mr. Nuttall. We saw al- 

 so the menispermum lyoni Hieracium marianiim, Rhexia 

 virginica^ &c. 



As we encamped at an early hour, the party dispered in 

 various directions in search of game. Nothing was found ex- 

 cept a swarm of bees affording as much honey as we chose 

 to eat for supper. While engaged in felling the tree, we heard 

 several guns, at a distance, and by sending persons to ex- 

 amine, we learned that they were those of a party of men ac- 

 companying Mr. Hugh Glen on his way from Fort Smith, 

 to the trading house at the mouth of the Verdigris. In the 

 evening we received a visit from Mr. Glen, whose camp was 

 distant only about a mile from ours. He was the first white 

 man, not of our own party, whom we had seen since the 6th 

 of the preceding June. From him we received a highly ac- 

 ceptable present of coffee, biscuits, a bottle of spirits, &c,; 

 also the welcome intelligence that Captain Bell, with his di- 

 vision of the exploring party, had arrived at Fort Sonith some 

 days previous. 



Early on the loth, we took up our march in a heavy fall 

 of rain, which continued until we arrived at the little planta- 

 tion opposite Belle Poiiit. Here we emerged from the deep 

 silence and twilight gloom of the forest, and found our- 

 selves once more surrounded by the works of men. The 

 plantation consisted of a single enclosure covered with a 

 thick crop of maize intermixed with gigantic stalks of the 

 Phytolacca decandra^ and Ricinus palma'Chrht'i^ forming a 

 forest of annual plants, which seemed almost to vie with 

 miegias and annonas, occupying the adjacent portions of the 

 river bottom. 



Urged by our impatience to see human faces, we called 



* We have adopted this uame from the author of the " Manual of Bota- 

 ny," as a substitute for that of the 1712 Genus of Persoon which has been 

 so severely censured by President Smith in Rees' Cyclopedia. It is equal- 

 ly appropiiate with the old name. 



