July 1882. Page 26 (seq. 55)

At 4.30 P.M. the whole party
went to the foot of Crow's
Nest on a picnic — On the
way I picked a piece of

Rubus strigosus

for my press. It is peculiar
as being perfectly white.
Near one camping ground I
got some

Agrimonia eupatoria
Erigeron strigosum {strigosus}

which I shall press for my
collection.
The Rhus typhina which I got
this A.M. is from a shrub
which bears flowers in very

large open panicles and there
are no remnants of last years
fruit, a fact which I no-
ticed last year also. So
I take it that the flowers
are barren although they
have pistils. Besides the
panicles are much too large
and open to make fruit
like the figure represented
in "Emerson's Trees & Shrubs
of Mass." A shrub near
by this one is covered still
with last year's fruit and
this year's flowers are nearly
developed. They are in the
the form of a very close panicle
and, of course, are fertile. I
shall get some specimens in
a day or two. Gray calls the
flowers polygamous. In this
case they would seem to act