The bluff on the south side of the city from one hundred and fifty to two hundred feet (?) high. The Pentstemon, above-mentioned, was very abundant (the great bell-flower) and showy by the sides of the road soon after leaving St. Anthony. The common Arabis about Lake Calhoun and St. Anthony is a Turritis having two rows of seeds in each cell, winged and attached to the partition. The leaves are rather lance olate or long, or linear-lanceolate, than ovate-lanceolate (but glaucous); some very slightly toothed. Petals (I think) twice as long as calyx; pods soon very shrinking, and not, as I notice, purplish. It answers therefore best to T. stricta, yet I think it is not like ours. The broad-leaved (lyrate) mustard-like plant (with remarkable turnip-scented straight root) under the cliff at St. Paul, just begun, with a now minute longish square pod, may be Sinapis nigra. Under the cliff I find the great Solomon's seal in flower (June 16) with six flowers. In the marsh east of St. Paul, Mimulus Jamesii (yellow flower), spreading in beds; and Veronica Americana blue-flowered. At the west end
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