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and fives are frequently found.  What attracted me
most was the highly hydro-cyanic acid flavored perfume
of the blossoms.  The odor, although so strongly
charged with this poisonous flower is really most pleasant.
Along the railroad were noticed frequently large patches of
the two yellow clovers.  Trifolium procumbens & T. agrarium.
We started for home about 7 P.M.

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June 9, 1900 We met at Ellicott City at 8 A.M.
A cool breeze from the north-west made the day
very pleasant.  We started in the direction of Hollafields,
our intentions being to go out at least to the 
dam.  A short distance beyond Oella a path may be 
seen leading up the hill-side. A walk along this
path is most pleasant, leading as it does through
the trees.  Here it was where last year we saw
the wood-thrush on its nest.  A short distance beyond
are the two trees - an oak and a beech - that in
growing a branch of the beech has become entirely
surrounded by the trunk of the oak.  Last year this
branch was alive bearing its full quota of leaves; this
        