
          399.

so hastened onward.  Reaching Westport, I stopped a moment 
to collect Aster subulatus and Bidens chrysanthemoides.  Innummerable
caterpillars were here noticed devouring the sedges <s>close to</s>
growing along the shore.  Reached home at 5 P.M.

150
Sept. 12, 1900.  To Canton ballast lots.  The temperature was
quite pleasant but the strong breeze from the west stirred
up the dust to such an extent, that one continually passed through
a cloud of dust.  When I reached home I was covered with a
thick layer of it.  To-day found again the Eupatorium found
three years ago but missed last year.  The plant has pink
flowers, grows to the height of 3 or 4 ft. is downy all over even 
the leaves have a velvety feeling; the stem is reddish brown; the
leaves are opposite petiolate and deeply cut in 3 divisions, which are lanceolate
2 to 3 in. long by ⅓ as wide. A specimen was sent two years ago to
Washington but the authorities failed to identify the plant.  The
plant found this year had not as many divided leaves as the plants
found on former occasions.  Inula Helenium, which grows close to
the railroad tracks a short distance from the water tank, and was
cut down close to the grown during June, has sprouted again
and sent up a few spindly shoots with a few flowers.
        