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lunch.  Dr. B. having an engagement during the afternoon we soon
took the car for home.  Reaching the city Dr. B. left me and
I continued on to Canton to spend an hour or two on the ballast
lots.  Ononis repens is still found in flower.  What interested 
me most was the increase of Verbascum sinuatum.  This
mullein bids fair to rival V. Blattaria and V. Thapsus in the 
near future.  After spending a couple of hours I started for home.
Our long spell of hot weather (more than 3 weeks) seems now at an end, the 
temperature during the past few days being much lower.

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July 28.1900.  Repeated the trip of July 14, to Saw Mill 
Pond, Marley-bridge and the "Old Furnace".  Left home about
7.30 A.M.  The morning was delightfully cool and the road
was in excellent condition, hard and solid, and no dust.

Before crossing the bridge at Furnace Branch I stopped at
the spring and was pleased to find a number of specimens of 
Habenaria tridentata.  Along the road-side close to the bridge I
found Solidago serotina Aiton in bloom.  This is the second of the 
golden-rods to come into bloom.  Odora is always first and this
one second.  To-day instead of taking the usual path to the pond
I took the outer one.  This path does not lead directly to the pond
        