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botanically arranged.

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BULLRUSH. In ponds and rivers. August.

When properly cured it makes very neat bottoms to chairs ;but they will be much stronger mixed with the leaves of thecat's tail flag, though somewhat coarser.

Scirpus culmo triquetro nudo acuminato, panicula spicis conglo-merata laterali. Syst. Nat.

THREE CORNERED RUSH. Banks of ponds and rivers. Aug.

ERIOPHORUM. Linn. Gen. Plant. 63.

Eriophorum culmis foliosis leretibus, foliisplanis, spica errecta.Syst. Nat. Gramen juncoides lanatum alterum danicum. Park.

COTTONGRASS. Pussy. Mossy meadows. May.

The down of the heads has been used for stufring pillows andmaking wicks of candles.

The indigenous grasses of the second order are numerous,but the limits of this paper would not admit of their being in-serted. A description of these and other native grasses may bethe subject of another paper.

TRIGYNIA.MOLLUGO. Linn. Gen. Plant. 99.Mollugo foliis verticillatis cuneiformibus acutis, caule subdivisodecumbente, pedunculis unifloris. Syst. Nat. Mulhigo foliisscepius septenis lanceolatis. Gronov.

CARPE1-WEED. Stern divided into numerous branches,spreading on the ground. Blossoms greenish white ; in Clustersat the joints. About pathways. July.

TETRANDRIA.

MONOGYNIA.ARUM Americanum, betce folio. Catesb. Nat. Hist.SCUNK CARBA GE. Scunkweed. The calix consists of a verylarge, permanent Spatha; of a thick, porous substance, ap-

proaching