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I at first could hardly believe it to be Plautago : 

 Pontederia cordata is very frequent. Potamo- 

 geton natans, gramineum, & crispum cover the 

 bottom of the water in large beds. The naviga- 

 tion up this river is very tedious on account of 

 the rappids or rifts : we arrived in the evening at 

 Oswego falls where I stood over night. 



Augt 2. No boats going up to day, it being 

 Sunday, I stood at the falls, as 1 was not able to 

 undertake it on foot, on account of nry sore toe ; 

 to spent the time to some purposs I got into a 

 small boat & went in pursuit of aquatic plants. 

 In a cove, the river forms here, 1 found a field of 

 Nyniphsea odora, beautifully in bloom. It is as 

 tonishing in how deep water some of them grow. 

 I pulled up flower stems 11. feet long, which dit 

 not seem to be entire nighter ; — Potamogeton 

 pectinatum P. had done flowering. I observed 

 this plant likewise last year in Virginia. — A 

 species of Equisetum growing in four feet water 

 seemed to me strange, may be it is a stem of the 

 Hippurus ? Sagittaria lancifolia this plant was 

 quit new to me, having never seen it before : — 

 A singular aquatic plant, with serrated leaves, 

 I never could make out, what this is. I seen it 

 frequently in New River last year. On some of 

 the stones I found a curious plant attached to 

 the rocks under water : it is articulated & consist 

 of green joints like blatters ; may be it is a 

 zoophyte ! Ranunculus aquatilis &c. 



On a gravelly Island I seen the Lobelia cardi- 

 nalis in riower. About the shore I observed a 

 Silene without flowers, specimens preserved. 



