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ries, looking like waxwork. — This is the Red & 

 White Cohosh : the blue Cohosh likewise grows 

 in plenty here : Xylosteum tartaricum is in 

 abundance, Ptelea trifoliata, Geranium Robert- 

 ianum, Lonicera glauca, with very narrow 

 ■ leaves, Taxus baccata or procumbens calld 

 Ground Hemlock— Poiypodium Dryopteris a 

 species of Clematis seemingly new tome. Saty- 

 rium repens— Circsea alpina — Chrysosplenium 

 alternifolium — Pyrola umbellata in flower. — 

 Arum triphyllum, Asplenium rhizophyllum & 

 what I thought the most of Asplenium Scolopen- 

 drium - this fern which I dont find mentioned by 

 any one to grow in America I allways had a no- 

 tion to be here ; & indeed I was quit enjoyed to 

 find my prejudice so well founded in truth. It 

 appears to be the same as the european, only 

 smaler ; query ? is the europaean auriculated at 

 the base like this species ?— The Choak cherry is 

 in plenty on these rocks & another species of 

 Prunus — A species of Urtica or Boehmeria, 

 which I got from Virginia in similar places 

 likewise.— In going towards Mr Geddes' house 

 again I observed a Rmunculus which I call H. 

 geoides. Dirca palustris, grows here likewise. 

 On the old rotten wood I observed a very sin- 

 gular Clavaria. — I stood this night at Sqr. Ged- 

 des. 



July 21— After breakfast I set out from here 

 to Saltpoint ;— On the road there I observed 

 nothing but what I have mentioned before : 

 Along road sides in general Jiere Carduus 

 lanceolatus,--Verbena hastata— Cynoglossum of- 



