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rear of O's place. Here we made the most pleasant find of the
day.  Here on the bank, overlooking the stream, covering several
hundred square feet was a large patch of Iris verna.  The flowers
could be counted by hundreds and so also the buds.  In a short
time we each collected more than an hundred.  Here, too, we found
another spring an excellent one.  After collecting some of this Iris
we passed through O's, stopped a few minutes to talk with Mrs. R.
and then got on Marley R'd.  We <s>followed</s> then walked down to the
bridge and followed the path along the <s>bridge</s> stream, we wished
to reach the hillside, where we found Epigaea so plentifully on our
last trip there, but we missed the hillside and reach the path
some distance below the church.  It was now after half-past five
so we thought it best to move onward towards G.  On our way we
passed more of this Iris and at one place a very pretty patch almost
equally the one at O's.  We reached G. a little ahead of time, & 
were surprised to see already at the station Mr. R. his daughter, F. and
two other ladies.  They had come down on the 1.10 P.M. train.
They each had a supply of this Iris besides Dogwood and the
fruit of the Red Maple.  This plant at this time presents a 
beautiful sight, its various shades of red contrasting finely
        