[074] _Genus Mus. L.--M. Floridanus, Ord, Say._ _Body_ robust; _back_ plumbeous; sides, sacrum, and origin of the tail, ferrugineous-yellowish; _fur_ plumbeous near its base; all beneath white; _tail_ hairy, above brown, as long as the body; _head_ plumbeous, intermixed with gray, gradually attenuated to the nose; _ears_ large, prominent, patulous, obtusely rounded, naked or furnished with obsolete sparse hairs behind, and on the margin within; _eyes_ moderately prominent; _whiskers_, some black, and some white bristles, elongated, longest surpassing the tips of the ears, arranged in six longitudinal series, superior labia, and those of the angles of the mouth, folded into the mouth, and hairy within; _legs_ subequal, robust; anterior legs with a few white projecting setæ near the foot behind; _feet_ white; _toes_ annulate beneath, with impressed lines, intermediate ones equal, exterior ones equal; shorter thumb minute; _palm_ with five tuberculous prominences, of which the anterior ones are placed triangularly, and the others transversely; _nails_ concealed by the hairs; _posterior feet_, inner toe shortest, 2d, 3d, and 4th subequal, the third slightly longest, all beneath annulated; _nails_ concealed by the hairs; _palm_ with six tubercles, of which the three posterior ones are distant from each other. Entire length, from nose to tip of tail, sixteen inches nearly; _tail_ seven inches, _ear_ rather more than 9/10 of an inch long, greatest breadth one inch. From tip of nose to anterior canthus of the eye, 1/20 inches. Length of the eye nearly 2/5.--JAMES. _Comment by Ed._ George Ord, a Philadelphia scientist and writer, was known especially for his work in ornithology. He was at one time a vice president of the American Philosophical Society, and from 1851-58 was president of the Academy of Natural Sciences at Philadelphia. [075] Near the mouth of the Merameg were collected the Rudbeckia _hirta_, and R. purpurea, a small white flowering species of Houstonia, the Galium tinctorium Smyrnium aureum, a phlox, a new species of potentilla, a conyza, the trifolium reflexum, a beautiful aira, the campunula perfoliata, diospyros virginiana, rhus glabra, and many others. _Dr. Baldwin's MS. Notes._--JAMES. [076] Vide Poche (Empty Pocket), more properly Carondelet, now included in St. Louis, was at this time five miles south of the original city. It is of about the same age.--ED. {52} CHAPTER III Tumuli and Indian Graves about St. Louis, and on the Merameg-- Mouth of the Missouri--Charboniere--Journey by land from St. Charles, to Loutre Island.