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 in circumference. Before returning to St. Paul he called on Dr. Anderson, and reported him as having a rattlesnake, and another kind larger, a light-brown snake found on the prairie; also he detected the doctor in a botanical error.

Dr. Anderson said that the anthers of the swamp Vaccinium were awned, which would put it with the Uliginosum section!! I find them not so, and the styles hairy; whence he places it apparently with V. oxycoccus, which has &quot;anthers awnless&quot; according to Gray; while the Uliginosum has, by the same authority &quot;anthers 2-awned on the back.&quot; Q. E. D.

Returning to St. Paul, Thoreau walked in the afternoon of June 15th along the river-shore south; but in the forenoon had noticed:

From St. Anthony to St. Paul, Pentstemon grandiflorus, the very showy bellflower abundant on the bank of the Mississippi, with the same on the sandstone, along with the tall long-leafed (and sub-ovate) variety of