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Catonsville (and) got out at Ingleside Av. and went south, thus
reaching Catonsville Av.  I soon reached James's large estate
here immediately beyond the beautiful Arbor vitae hedge
I found the plant, this time in flower.  As soon as I saw
the flower I recognized it to be a Euphorbia.  The plant is
quite beautiful, from 18 to 24 inches high, with beautiful dark
green, rather fleshy, sinnate and slightly petiolate linear opposite leaves
having a rather light, almost white midrib.  Each pair of leaves is
at right angles to the pair immediately below, this arrangement
makes them appear as if in four rows.  I took 3 or 4 specimens.
The plant was determined to be Euphorbia Lathyris.  Wood
says it is called mole tree from its supposed efficacy in driving
away this animal.  Along the sides of the road grow a great
many cherry trees.  To-day, no special effort was necessary to
find these trees, each one having written its trade-mark very
clearly at its foot, where a great lot of the ripened and now
decaying fruit would be found.  There was still much fruit on
the upper boughs, all of which no doubt goes to waste.  The 
fruit of all these trees is of a very dark brown almost black
color.  They are of a very pleasant flavor, although there are
        