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• anadense (:a ti:) Orchis spectablis (p tl:) Urtica 

 spec— Black & Red Raspberries in dower—The 

 Pigeon berries or Pigeon peas we could not find, 

 nutill we returned to the house, where a place 

 was where they commonly grow : in howing up 

 some ground they showed me the roots by which 

 I found them, to be probably nothing else, than 

 the tuberculisof a species of Glycine, resembling 

 marrowfat peas very much : the pigeons scrach 

 them up at certain times of the year & feed upon 

 them very greed yly. 



•27. i he heath waters of Martin creek come out 

 of several ponds laying in the highest part of the 

 beach woods, I was very desirous of seeing them; 

 Mr. Millhouse in expectation of getting some 

 Venison dit go along with me ; as there is no 

 load or path leading in particular to those ponds, 

 I was very glad to get him as guide : though I 

 would have been able to find them, it would have 

 taken me a night to stay on the road, which was 

 now unnecessary as he could find a more direct 

 course to them, without following the water, as 

 [ would have obliged to do. — We ascended 

 gradually, crossing some of the branches now 

 & then, on one of which was a very handsome 

 cascade, on whose banks nearly the same 

 plants grew, which I found about the falling 

 springs, at Lawahannock — The Oxalis acetosella 

 frequently occurs here with quite purple flowers, 

 which colour in some instances is quit deep. — 

 Mr. Millbourne made me attentive to a root, 

 which he calls Pepperoot — 'Tis a white longe & 

 articulated root, creeping on the surface of the 

 ground, under the rotton leaves, & lias but one !•• u 



