
          419.

*In getting a specimen I pulled up a portion of the thick fleshy root.  I was covered with
numerous white aphides.  Along with them were a number of brown ants.

seem to warrant my taking 10 of the pretty plants.  Had it 
not been raining so very hard I <s>would</s> could have examined 
the hills carefully, but my legs and feet were already soaked
so I thought it best not to tarry to long.  I reached Relay
at 2 o'clock.  Here I ate the remainder of my lunch, I had
eaten the most of it while at the spring in the ravine.  The
next train would leave at 4:10 P.M.  Considering everything I
thought it best to walk home.  I left R. at 4 minutes past 
two and about that time after four I was home, thoroughtly 
soaked for the rain was driving against me all the way home
and my umbrella only protected by head and breast.  Along the
railroad I found Helianthus giganteus in a number of places
it is quite prominent at this time of the year.*  Found to-day
still specimens of Monotropa uniflora.

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Oct. 18, 1900.  3 P.M.  To Canton ballast lot in search of
Diplotaxis tenuifolia. Found quite a lot of it on lot close to
water tank.  Reseda, Linaria vulgaris, Maruta Cotula, Tribulus terrestris,
Inula Helenium and Melilotus officinalis were still found in 
flower.  Found a new plant of the genus Euphorbiaceae but have
thus far failed to determine it.  To-day had our first frost
        