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 Chrysopsis? (one specimen with many showy heads) lower or radicle leaves linear-lanceolate; small teeth at long intervals; also a physalis-like plant (P. viscosa) with soft downy leaves not quite out, and another (of the Polanisia graveolens) not yet out. Oxybaphus nyctagineus with small involucre.

Galium boreale (common in openings) just begun.

This is copied from page 51 of such folded papers, numbered to nearly 100 by him, and serving for a note-book, as Channing above describes. In some of them he evidently wrote after passing the places where he had seen plants; for example, on pages 44-46, he says:

Is not Parry wrong in calling the fruit of the Amelanchler Pembina? Sir J. Richardson says the Corylus Americana crosses &quot;the continent to the Pacific Ocean.&quot; This is not only very plenty in Minnesota, but at Carp River, Mackinaw, Goderich, and Ogdensburg.

I suspect the common Symphoricarpus of