
          537.

*The following is of interest.  Mr. W. had the day before gotten 3 of the flowers.
On his way home, he was met by a man, who asked him if the flowers were not Poison Flag.  Mr. W. of course told him yes, and that he only intended taking them home to show somebody, when he would put them into the fire.

of bright yellow attracted our attention and off we hurried
to the pretty flowers.  Hardly had we seen our first patch when
immediately beyond we saw another.   In our first patch were 20
handsome flowers and in our second 30.  Patch after patch of the
pretty flowers were found so that in our little expedition 147 in
all were counted.  Beside the plants in flower, fully twice their
number were found not in bloom.  Most, in fact nearly all, of the
plants were pubescens.  One patch in particular was marked for
observation next year. In it were 10 plants in bloom, it <s>lay</s> was between
a <s>l</s> rock and a tree which we marked with a white rag.  Close 
to the rock were 3 specimens of parviflorous.  A few feet below
the patch of 10 was another of 6.  One plant only was found
with 2 flowers on one stalk.  This plant was below and towards
the north-east from our marked patch; this, too was marked by
tying a white rag to a hickory.  We now returned to our camp and
after removing all flowers likely to attract attention we built a
little fire prepared coffee & ate our dinner.*  In one of the flowers I
had taken for the press was a bee it was held a prisoner, not
being able to free itself from the glutinous stamen to which it was attached
I noticed that this glutinous substance was of a dirty brown color and held
        