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show me the Leek & Pigeon pea, as he calls it, 

 We could not find either of them, though he 

 brought me to places where he said they were 

 found in great plenty. We tare up the ground 

 in several places, & at last succeeded to find some 

 of the roots of the leek ; it is a long bulb, of a very 

 strong garlick smell, with a black skin outside ; 

 the leaves are broad & long as he says, & appear 

 the earlyest of any thing in this country ; it 

 grows in mois', shady places alongside the hills, 

 near the bottom of the creeks : I cannot suppose 

 it to be Allium tricocca, as that prefers a rocky 

 situation. Hy the way in looking for these I 

 observed Streptopus lanuginosus & roseus (:p flr) 

 Botrypus virginiosus, Scandix dulcis, — Trillium 

 erythrocarpum (:p ft:) — which flowers white & 

 red here, & is calld Bathroot & though to 

 possess great power in diseases of the lungs & 

 liver. Acer montanum, very common through 

 these woods calld Elkwood. —Orchis bifolia ? 

 This very singulare plant, has without doubt, the 

 handsomest leaf, of any of our-natives : the two 

 leaves lay opposite one another flat on the ground, 

 are nearly circulare of a handsome lurid green 

 with darker longitudinal nerves & sometimes 6. 

 inches wide : the underside of those leaves 

 seems to be beset with very minute cristalliza- 

 tions, which when magnified are nearly of the 

 structure of the Ice plant, which gives it a very 

 brilliant appearance. The stock is generally 

 from 12 to 15. inches high, angulated & naked. 

 The spike of flowers is considerable long & loose; 

 the bracte is lanceolate linear, acute, of the 

 same texture as the leaf only finer, & as long as the 



