Mrs. Charles C. (?) Frost showed me a painted list of the flowers of B., furnished by him to a newspaper in B. some years since. He saws he finds Aster simplex and A. ptarmicoides there (according to Oakes the latter is not found in New England out of Vermont), the latter now covered by the high water of the river . . .

  A.M.—Walked down the railroad about a mile, returning partly by river-bank.

  The depot is on the site of “Thunderbolt’s” house. He was a Scotch highwayman. Called himself Dr. Wilson (?) when here. The prevailing polygonum in B. was a new one to me . . .

  Frost said that Dr. Kane left B. the morning of the day I arrived, and had given him a list of arctic plants brought home by him, which he showed me . . .