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some of the more noted plants, which he could 

 give me by & by. Phryma leptostachia grows 

 very tall & large here : — Polygonum aviculare 

 the yariety with upright stem & large leaves. 

 Cicuta maculata grows in great abundance 

 throughout Onondaga : the Indians use it to 

 poison themselves, when they have an inclination 

 in going out of this world ; it is a most powerfull 

 poison, as Capt Webster tells me who has seen 

 the case on some Indians which had eaten the 

 root, & was lost without being able to get any- 

 thing as a remedy against it, it occasions Lock- 

 yaw & the patient is soon done. Elder bark or 

 a Muskrat skin chappd line, with the hair on is 

 reckoned a remedy if soon apply ed to. Buthal- 

 mium helianthoides in full bloom — Hedysarum 

 acuminatum & a species of Lespedeza without 

 flowers — Circrea alpina ? Triosteum majus— Ne- 

 phrodium dentatum— Asplenium salicifolium & 

 polypodoides, P —the former 1 could not find with 

 fructifications. — On my return I observed the 

 same plant which puzzled me so much last year: 

 and which I took then to be a species of Batschia 

 A happened as then that I came too late for see- 

 ing its flowers, but foliage & seeds indicate it, to 

 be very nearly related to it : after diligent search 

 I found one small flower on the top of a young 

 shoot remaining, which I carefully examined & 

 found the following character Batschia parviflora 

 p — corallis pallide luteis, tubus calyce subae- 

 quante, limbus subclausus, callosus : staminibus 

 inclusis. The Cynoglossum parviflorum in 

 plenty.— this night Sqr. Geddes calld on my 



