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 several days, he notes that he found the Viola delphinifolia and the pedata, both common on the prairie thereabout, &quot;without the yellow eye in the centre, but with the long petals looking both ways, and the convex prominent lower petal of the pedata.&quot; There also he found the wood-strawberry, and a lonicera ten feet high, with a &quot;dull purple corolla, gibbous at base,&quot; yet corresponding to Gray's description, though not climbing. &quot;My lonicera is evidently the parviflora,—the deep dull purple or crimson variety, but from two to eighteen feet high, with its corolla from three-fourths of an inch to an inch long, and fragrant leaves not downy.&quot;

He hears the plaintive note of the oriole, suffers from myriads of mosquitoes, and sees plenty of wood-ticks; hears also the note of the black and white creeper, and the rasping note of the fringilla,—the bird nearly six inches long, on the bur-oaks in the openings. The Spermophilus Franklinii is seen alive (as well as one which a boy shot, &quot;with much wheat and a stony fruit in its pouches&quot;). The living specimen he finds &quot;quite gray-squirrel-like and handsome.&quot; Where once