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, and the whole plant rather unpleasantly scented."

Now occurs the voyage up and down the Minnesota river, already described; and soon he is ready to start on his slow return to Concord; by no means essentially improved in health, but able, as we have seen, to endure great fatigue and to accomplish much of his daily work of nature-study. On his voyage from Milwaukee to Mackinaw, June 28, he notes with a quiet regret that some few plants have been seen &quot;not yet identified,&quot; notably, &quot;the Illinois man’s ’yellow fanilla’ vine; another whitish-flowered, smooth, parsnip-smelling plant at Redwood; and since then a yellow composite flower about eight-rayed (a clover-like vetch), a hypoxys-like flower, and finally a sonchus-like flower found at Red Wing.&quot; These doubts were nearly all solved in time, as the numbered list will show.

Arriving at the &quot;Mackinaw House&quot; June 30, he remained there observing, resting, botanizing, and querying for five days; but the record of the time is chiefly in lists of plants and detached observations, a little hard to piece together in logical or chronological