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storehouses of botanical treasures in season.  The path
passes through a wood; it, however, ends very abruptly at an
open field.  We entered this field; in it, we found our first
specimen of Houstonia caerulea.  We passed through the field
and came to a piece of woodland.  Here trees had been cut
down all over the place.  We found the place very pretty though
especially, the many paths through the wood.  How beautiful
was the ground to-day!  What a beautiful carpet did the lichen
mosses and brown leaves make!  Some of the designs were exquitite.
What grand harmonizing of colors.  The grayish green
of a pretty arborescent lichen, the beautiful greens light and
dark of the mosses, then the many shades of brown of the old
dead leaves!  To-day was really lichen day.  I collected
almost my vasculum full of these plants alone.  Along one
of the paths we came to a most beautiful collection of Red
Bushes.  We followed the paths, keeping as nearly as possible
parallel with the electric railway.  We then spent several hours
in the woods.  We enjoyed our trip immensely notwithstanding the
rain and the dampness.  When, we finally reached the Electric cars
we were some distance from the station.  We kept now on
        