dle, 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 "not yet identified," notably, "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." These doubts were nearly all solved in time, as the numbered list will show.
Arriving at the "Mackinaw House" 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
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