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* by putting 4 little sticks around the plant with one larger one to mark
the spot the other.

the ground very carefully, but we were not able to pick out the
decayed leaves of the plants from the surrounding decaying foliage.
We now<s>s</s> went down to the Tipularia at Owl Camp.
The leaves were found more decayed, and harder to distinguish
from the surrounding dead leaves, but still no flowers.  We
examined one plant carefully, the best preserved one, and
noticed a little shoot, it was still very small.  The other
plants had no such bud and the leaves of some of them were
entirely decayed.  We hope this bud will prove to be a floral
one.  Close at hand were many sterile specimens of Podophyllum
peltatum; two of these were marked for future 
observation.  One was marked(*) as follows: -- a stout green
twig [sapling] was laid on the ground, one end touching the plant
thus marking the exact spot; the piece of wood was held
firmly in place by weighting it down with a number of heavy
stones.  We afterwards went across the brook to the Cypripedium 
place and marked several of them in the same way.
The flower on Cypripedium number one, observed last Saturday
had withered and had failed to be fertilized; number two, 
however, had apparently both flowers fertilized.  The other plants

        