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smock to be able to stand milking, in the evening 

 and morning. 



28. — This day I was busy in drying & arranging 

 the plants collected since I came here j Mr. Mill- 

 bourn went to the place where we killed the bear 

 to fetch him home ; he weighed 208. pound with 

 the skin, his meat tasted most excellent. In a 

 small excursion I made I found plenty of the All- 

 heal & Pyrola secunda beginning to show his 

 flowers. I collected a number of plants of the 

 Viola with thick leaves, to have a close exami- 

 nation of it in the house which made me sure, 

 that it is a new species, very easy to be overlooked 

 by almost any botanist on account of its singular 

 way of flowering ; the fleshy root is fall of tuber- 

 culis, between which the numerous fibres hava 

 their origin, between the footstalks of the leaves 

 on the top of the roots are several lanceolate 

 stipulis, or scales involving the footstalk. From 

 three to 6. leaves spread themselves out flat on 

 the ground, their footstalks are long semi-cylin- 

 drical & smooth ; The leaves are ovate, cordate, 

 repand, crenate, nervous ; the sinus on their base 

 small and narrow; the upper side hirsute or cov- 

 ered with scattered single short hair, the under- 

 side nearly smooth ; they are of a strong fleshy 

 texture, more so than any of the other species of 

 this genus, to my knowledge ; the flower stem or 

 scape comes out between the leaves & creeps close 

 to the surface of the ground, mostly under cover 

 of the leaves almost in the manner of stolones, 

 he is cylindrical & sparsedly beset with lanceo- 

 late bracteis, of a membranacous texture & most- 

 ly a purplish brown Colour ; near the end of those 



