several days, he notes that he found the Viola delphinifolia and the pedata, both common on the prairie thereabout, "without the yellow eye in the centre, but with the long petals looking both ways, and the convex prominent lower petal of the pedata." There also he found the wood-strawberry, and a lonicera ten feet high, with a "dull purple corolla, gibbous at base," yet corresponding to Gray's description, though not climbing. "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."
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, "with much wheat and a stony fruit in its pouches"). The living specimen he finds "quite gray-squirrel-like and handsome." Where once
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