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THE BOTANICAL JOURNAL OF G. W. CLINTON |
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THE BOTANICAL JOURNAL OF G. W.
CLINTON – November 1865 |
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[1865] Nov. 2. By 8 A.M. train to Syracuse,
walked about marsh &c., at Salina, no mosses. In the evening, delivered
an address at the opening of Bryant, Stratton & Co.'s Syracuse College. [Note that now Clinton is looking for mosses and
liverworts (= bryophytes) he can collect during the fall, winter and early
spring when the vascular flora is dormant after the growing season ends for
the year ‑ approximately mid‑October in the Buffalo area. Hence his
collecting here in November.] [1865] Nov. 3. By 7*40' train to Chittanango
Station, thence, by Stage, to The Chittenango Falls. Explored the chasm. At
foot of Fall found Fissidens grandifrons. In the ravine, what I take to be
Anomodon viticulosus common. Walked back to the station. Train, at 5 P.M.,
picked me up & took me to Syracuse, supped, got into 6*20' train &
home by about 11 P.M. [1865] Nov. 4. By 9 A.M. train to Suspension
Bridge, crossed & down to Foster's Flats. Explored that and the Whirlpool
Brook (so I shall call the brook which has formed a deep ravine. What I take
to be Anomodon viticulosus is common at both places, indeed everywhere about
the Falls. Found Desmatodon arenaceus on rock, & stones on the Flat &
some Seligeria with it on stones. Took the 5*50' train at the Bridge &
got home at about 7*P.M. [1865] Nov. 6. Sent off packages by American
Express to G. F. Matthews, Curator Soc. of Nat. Hist., St. John's, N.B.
Blowing a gale. [1865] Nov. 8. Mossed a little in & about
The Grove. [1865] Nov. 9. Mossed on The Plains. Collected
some Thelia hirtella, Platygyrium repens, & other things. [1865] Nov. 10. To the Falls by 9*A.M. train
crossed & walked up, along the river, nearly to The Horseshoe looking for
Trichostomum rigidulum, am afraid I did not find it. Icicles hanging from the
cliffs. Back to Goat Island, where I spent the rest of the day looking for
Dicranum montanum & Hypnum Sprucei, am afraid that I found neither. Home
by the 6 P.M. train. [1865] Nov. 11. Took a boat at the Dam &
went down to Strawberry Island after Isoetes for Engelmann. Cold, water
roiley, got very little, if any. Big Bay had in it sheets of ice. [1865] Nov. 13. A. M. Street car to the Rock,
walked to the Dam, & then crossed Main Street & went on to Pine Hill
Woods There found a Leucodon, & one of the common Hepaticaceae in fruit.
Back to Main St. & home by the street car. [The Rock is Black Rock.] [1865] Nov. 14. Tuesday. By 6*30' train to
Irving. Walked over the dunes, & up to & all about Silver Creek,
mossing. Took 4* P.M. train & got back by 5 1/2* [1865] Nov. 16. Thursday. After breakfast,
crossed to Canada, walked down the R. R. to Frenchman's Creek, & down
& about the Creek, & crossed fields back to the Ferry. Found Phascum?
& Pottia? [1865] Nov. 17. Friday. Being anxious to find
the Pottia? & the Phascum? on this side of the River, walked, after
diner, to the Genesee St. wood, & found neither. In returning to Main
St., by the road that runs by the North side of the Cemetery, found a small
moss common in the northerly side of the road, & it may be the Pottia? [1865] Nov. 18. Saturday. Street car to The
Dam, walked on, down the River Road, to first wood beyond Cornelius's [sic]
Creek, & found therein the Phascum?, also in open field beyond, in a
single spot, what seems, through my pocket glass, a minute moss, but could
detect no foliage. Also, in the field next the wood, radical leaves of an
Oenothera, & they remind me of Oenothera fruiticosa, as I saw it, late in
the Autumn, near Harlem. Tried the grove on Cornelius's Creek, nil! [1865] Nov. 20. Monday. Put into American
Express, packages for Mr. Bebb and Dr.
Bumstead. [1865] Nov. 21. Mossed at Devil's Hole, in
Whirlpool Wood, and in grove by the American Staircase. Received a small
packet from Lewis Foote. [1865] Nov. 22. Commenced snowing last night,
& is snowing this morning. [1865] Nov. 24. Buckley called, dined with me,
gave him some specimens, such as he wished, looking over my past season's
collections, promised to write to me. [1865] Nov. 27. Received small, rich, package
from Canby. Put into American Express, a package for Mr. Stark of Edinburgh
now at Toronto. [Robert M. Stark.] [1865] Nov. 28. Walked out to Smoke's Creek, a
mossing. [1865] Nov. 29. 12 3/4 P.M. to Niagara Falls to
see if Fissidens grandifrons shows any signs of fruiting, it dosen't. On Goat
Island, Euonymus atropurpureus in fruit, very pretty, searched the whole of
the wooded part of the Island. About this date, received a package from Dr.
Martindale. |
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Scientific names may be looked up in the online checklist of Western New York plants. Find genus names beginning with A - C D - K L - P Q - Z. |