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it:  we, therefore, asked her, if she had one, she had and
gladly let us have it.  We now continued our trip, stopping
frequently, collecting mushrooms.  We soon had a large
mess.  The road now left the stream.  We followed it
yet a short distance, then crossed the field in the direction
of the river.  We had very little trouble finding a path
leading through another ravine & towards the Patapsco.
Here we found plenty of butternuts and hickory nuts and I
collected quite a lot of them.  Taking off the husks of the
hickory nuts, I noticed that grubs only infested this and
never the nut.  We reached the river road at the last
one of the 3 hills.  These we now examined closely for
the gentian and were fortunate enough to find one with
3 buds.  This we took up carefully to transplant.
We took the temperature of the spring and found it
58º F.  It was now after 12 o'clock, so determined 
to start at once for the Cascades.  We had not proceeded
very far when we met Mr. [Caspair's], son of Prof. [Caspair],
collecting the fruit of Lindera Benzoin, intending to express
the oil of which the seed contain from 55 to 58% and make
it the subject of a thesis.  After quite a lengthy chat we
        