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FLOWERS. 
mandibles produced in front, forming a long pair 
of forceps, curving slightly upwards. My friend 
Mr. Frederick Smith, to whom I presented a speci- 
men, told me its name, but I have forgotten it. 
Although not specifically the same, the flowers I 
met with in my walks reminded me of those in 
England. The Oxalis is yellow-flowered, and does 
not produce so pleasant an acid as our owui wood- 
sorrel ; the shepherd’s-purse appears to be the same 
as ours ; the groundsel is represented by Emilia 
sonchifolia ; the Persicaria is replaced by Poly- 
gonum chinense ; the woolly Gnaphalium resembles 
that which grows in waste places in England; 
instead of the harebell we have here the Wahlen- 
bergia agrestis ; and in place of the bindweed, we 
find the Evohoilus emarginatus, with its trumpet- 
like flowers. By the margin of a running stream, 
springing in numbers from the fresh green sod, I 
saw the Spiranthes australis, a delicate little orchid 
reminding one of S. aestivaEs and familiar Hamp- 
shire meadows. 
In the deep, damp fissures of the ground, the 
