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Pitcher plants were still found in bloom, notwithstanding
the depletion that is constantly going on.  This
locality is known to a great many hundreds of people, botanists and
others, who each year visit the place to get one or more
specimens. Still this plant seems to hold its own
and even is increasing.  The flower is very beautiful, of a
beautiful deep red, is quite large and when just expanded
has quite a sweet odor.  Following close to the 
edge of the swamp.  I surprised a little brown bird in its
nest, which was very neatly made, quite small and contain
4 little brownish mottled eggs.  We soon reached
the pond, here we found our first Nymphaea odorata.
While raising a water soaked log, lying on the edge of the 
pond we found two leaches.  One had hollowed out a
nice little hole opening in the mud.  The leach is certainly not
pretty when seen crawling over mud or examined in one's hand,
but seen moving through the water, its body fully extended
undulating in graceful rhythm, the rows of dots on its
back setting it off, it looks very pretty.  On the shore we
found Viola lanceolata growing with V. primulifolia, its long
        