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of woodland through which were scattered numerous 
large rocks on which grew an abundance of Cheilanthes 
lanosa, have also been improved out of existence. 
In Anne Arundel County, only a few miles from Balti- 
more, there is a stream which flows through woods and 
‘past farms. At one place it broadens out into a shallow 
pond, now almost filled with silt. In the early nineties 
my schoolmates and I made several attempts to find this 
pond, because Sarracenia and other interesting plants 
grew around it. Now the pond can be seen from a much 
traveled road because truck-growers have cleared off 
nearly all the woods. Some of the plants which are 
in danger are Dryopteris simulata and Lorinseria areo- 
lata, both of which grow in large beds, Anchistea Vir- 
ginica, one of two plants of Dryopteris Boottii known to 
be near Baltimore, and Lycopodium adpressum, not to 
mention many flowering plants. This is the type local- 
ity for Osmunda cinnamonea glandulosa. 
Possibly none of the above would have been written 
if it had not been for a walk which my boy and I took 
on Decoration Day. He wanted to take, and perhaps 
brag about, a twelve-mile walk, and I wished to revisit 
one of the wildest and loneliest and most interesting 
haunts of the days before my coming to Washington. 
The first seven miles had the peculiarity so often noticed 
that although the contour lines on the map showed a 
drop of over one hundred feet, yet all the hills ran up, 
and were very steep at that. At the very spot where we 
had intended to take an obscure path across the hill to 
the banks of the Gunpowder River, we saw the first of 
a series of signs announcing that this was a state game 
preserve. The penalty was too large to encourage tak- 
ing a chance at trespassing. Even now, six months 
later, I have not gotten over the disappointment of that 
moment, because for nearly thirty years the woods on 
both sides of the river had been my favorite haunts. 
