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very handsome flowering species seems, to the 

 best of my recollection of the same plant in Eu- 

 rope, to be quite another thing, the flowers of 

 this species are fare larger inside white, outside 

 purplish, sometimes quite purple both with dark 

 purple stripes, which terminate near the base of 

 the Lamina in a yellow eye ; The flowers of the 

 O. acetosella of Europe are clear white without 

 the stripes or the yellow eye, & far smaler as far 

 as I recollect, the leaves may be the same shape, 

 but as I suppose the specimens of Michaux were 

 compared in a dryed state & likely bad ones, 

 with the European sort, made the error. — Tama- 

 rix glauca and sempervirens in full flower : — 

 The ground in any open place is covered with dif- 

 ferent species of Fern, Osmundas & Xephrodiums 

 of the more common kind. — I dit not observe 

 any of the Cornus canadensis here, untill I had 

 crossed the Lehigh, when I med with a few plants 

 of it, & the Convallaria bifolia in full bloom, 

 Here I likewise observed the Azalea nudiflora 

 yet in full flower, which is done, almost every- 

 where else. The Trientalis is here in a larger 

 & more european like shape, than I seen it at Po- 

 kono. — The chief timber of this swamp is as far 

 as I could see is Hemlock mixed with water 

 beach (Carpinus) Aspen &c. I think even if 

 I would have taken the trouble to penetrate for 

 some distance into it I would not have found any 

 thing more interesting, as I seen along the main 

 road, with but very little deviation from it, now 

 and then, when chance & oportunity required or 

 allowed it. Late in the evening, after crossing 

 several very high ridges, I arrived at Wilkesbarre, 



