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with Mr. H. now went up to his home, while I continued on to the
pond.  We arranged to meet at Furnace Br. at the Orontium place.
With the exception of finding some pretty specimens of Krigia Virginica
which I put into press and plenty of Iris, nothing of importance was
observed <s>in my part of this</s> <s>near</s> over this portion of my trip.  Still I might
record the seeing of so many robinia.  Cypripedium acaule is now
coming up.  It is much later than last year, for then we found
several fully developed flowers, to-day, the farthest developed
still showed only a green bud.  I reached the Orontium place
a little ahead of Mr. W so occupied my time in trying to get
a nice specimen to press, but although I dug more than 8 inches
into the mud I was still not deep enough and the specimen broke
in trying to get it out.  Mr. W. now came and we started off for 
the old furnace.  Epigaea repens was found still in flower.
We followed the path to the spot where Pogonia verticillata
grows, but we failed to find any.  To-day, instead of walking
through Newton's field as we generally do, we followed a
path near the shore.  On our way we stopped to examine
that old spring immediately before reaching the furnace  We found
it in rather dirty condition, although flowing very freely; so we
        