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iicinale & parvifolium. Myosotis lappula — Ver- 

 bascum Thapsus — Polygonum Persicaria, — An- 

 themis Cotula &c. cover the ground, at the Point 

 I crossed the mash, to visit the banks of the 

 Lake — here I observed Potentilla anserina— Sta- 

 chys spec. — Sisyrinchium bermudiana ? Cornus 

 albida. — Viburnum Opulus calld Cranberry tree 

 — Plantago major — Teucrium canadense — I 

 think this is materially different from T. virgini- 

 cum-Solidago odora-Galium noribusochroleucis, 

 petalis acuminatis — a very tall species of Scirpus 

 — & several other plants mentioned before. In 

 my return I found some more of the unknown 

 plant, which looked like Lythrum verticillatum 

 — it had flower buds in the axillis. which by dis- 

 section showed plainly to be Lythrum, & I sup- 

 pose that very species I supposed. 



On the shore of the Lake I visited, several 

 salt works are erected, which are supplied from 

 the main works with water, which is carried for 

 that purpose about H mile. As it was late 

 when I returned to the point I stood there over 

 night. 



July 22. Returned to the Hollow where T ex- 

 amined & dryed those plants collected the last 

 two days. 



23 1 — It being rainy I was confined to the 



24 j house, writing, drying plants &c. 



25 Made an other excursion to Salt point. As 

 I observed nothing new through the swamp & 

 marsh, I went on to a place calld Little Ireland or 

 Liverpool — Here they have Salt Springs on the 

 edge of the lake, most of them covered by the 



