
          short black hairs. The flavour is an agreable slight acid, combined with the peculiar
taste of Gaultheria procumbens + like that pl. this flavour seems to be diffused thr-
oughout the pl. the substance is pulpy. Permit me again to digress - to say a
few works about our whortleberries. I cannot help thinking that the Boston Flora
is nearest right in respect of this genus. Our V. virgatum, is so very far from V.
Pennsylvanicum, as to be nearer in general aspect to V. frondosum. And our
V. disomorphum appears to me perfectly distinct. I have found this last with a
hirsute corolla, uniformly in the cade of a single pl. which was all I saw. This oc-
curred at Keene, N.H. I should have mentioned one or two other things while spea-
king of the Emptra. The E. conradii does not appear as yet to be at all com-
mon in the Plymouth region, though I do not doubt their immense forest con-
tains unknown stations for it. Two localities only are now known - both
sandy knolls. It covers them in dense patches. The E. nigrum I have found on
all the highers summits of the Green Mts. in Vt. by well as on the White Mts.
Lysimachia nummularia I have little hope of. It has not spread, + indeed
is almost if not quite destroyed in its present station by the removal of the soil.
The Carex atrata of Nutt. must be rare on the White Mts. as it escaped
Mt. Oakes. I have not found it since my first visit but I got (in company
with [added: Mr.] W.F. Macrae of Lower Canada, a very enterprising botanist) abundant speci-
ens (necessarily immature) in June this year on the Nose of Mansfield, one of the
highest summits of the Green Mts. Vt. which I will send you - with the other 
if possible. Mt. Oakes says neither of them is anything more than an Alpine form
of C. imosa - + yet he doubts not the former is truely C. atrata of Nuttall.
I have been quite successful this season in my lichens. Some new + very inter-
esting pl. have been added to my coll. But I do not expect to study what
I hae brought home ill the winter. In the phaernog. [?] I have had some success.
The true Aspidium aculeatum of Push got by him in the "Green Mts. Vt."
was found by Mr. Macrae + myself on the side of the Chin of Mansfield - a sum
        