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place where it grows. As soon as I came up with him, we looked care- 

 fully for more specimens, and eight more were found. This plant, too, 

 like H. trideutata, can grow in very wet places, as some were found 

 growing in the water! The most beautiful specimen of all was observed 

 a little more closely. To it was still attached the remains of last year's 

 flower stalk, showing that it had not only bloomed but also fruited. 



We now went directly to the x>ond, and while Mr. W. took a boat 

 to get water lilies, I examined Marsilia quadrifolia. The water lilies 

 {Nymphaea odorata) attracted our attention on account of their long 

 rigid flower stalks, raising the flowers fully four inches out of the water. 

 The stalks, as a rule, are not rigid but rather limber, allowing the flower 

 to float with the motion of the water. Another plant found out of 

 water, and where one might think a long rigid stalk would be produced, 

 had it only long enough to bring the bud to the surface, and the flower 

 lay expanded close to the ground. Marsilia quadri/olia was in fine 

 condition, and examination showed many plants with sporocarps. 

 These were found on terrestrial plants, none of those in the water hav- 

 ing a single one. One plant only, and that so close to the shore that 

 its stem was barely covered with water had them. The sporocarps, 

 one, two, or three in niimber, but generally two, were on very short 

 stalks attached to the stalk of the leaf. Another thing noticed was that 

 some of the leaves twined around other leaves. This, however, was no 

 doubt brought about mechanically, and not from any inclination on the 

 part of the leaves themselves. 



It was now after twelve o'clock, so we found a pretty nook on the 

 hill overlooking the pond, and here we ate our lunch. While we were 

 eating a shower of rain fell for a short time in large drops, but shortly 

 afterward we had another which was of longer duration. Within half 

 an hour, though, it had stopped, and during the greater part of the re- 

 mainder of the afternoon it was only partly cloudy. 



After dinner we went toward the old furnace. On our way we 

 stopped to examine the spring which we had cleaned out some months 

 previously. It was found with much difiiculty, as brier, bramble and 

 vine had taken possession of every available inch. While looking for 

 it, we saw a most brilliant display of the flowers of Lilium sriperhimi. 

 They were so beautiful — in fact, I have never seen a more beautiful dis- 

 play — that we decided to see them at close range. They were sepa- 

 rated from us by an almost impassable network of brier and bramble. 

 Had we depended on trying to force ourselves through this mass, I 

 think we would never have succeeded. But by means of a stout stick 

 Mr. W. beat down everything before him, and thus we finally reached 

 them. There were seven plants close together, the tallest being fully 

 eight feet high. Forty-two full}' opened flowers were counted, the 



