bluff, Lithospermum hirtum (hairy puccoon), larger than most species; and Rudbeckia hirta, not long.
On the south bluff, at the base, Onosmodium Carolinianum (seen before), in bloom, with bees on it. A narrow-leaved Erigeron strigosum-like? Common cistus. Sonchus-like yellow flower on the top of the south bluff.
Under the Barn Bluff, Cystopteris abundant, Scutellaria diphylla and a slender, lyrate, red-leaved crucifer with white flower. That smooth, palmate-leaved (with linear divisions), single-headed, yellow-flowered plant not yet out,—very common about Red Wing and before, must be Coreopsis palmata. My Zygadenus is from a coated bulb, but has channelled leaves with distinct veins, is found on high and dry land, and is from one to three feet high.
There is a double path on this bluff, made by two, one a little higher than the other, and fainter, ceasing near the end of slope; it is like a regular two-wheel track, three feet apart, the lower one the deeper. There are two Indian mounds,—the old, say one
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