
          496.

Here we built a fire and when we had a nice supply of hot ashes
we roasted 3 large sweet potatoes.  Our potatoes turned out nicely
and we enjoyed them very much.  We left our camp about 6.45
P.M., reached the terminus about 7.30 and arrived home about 8.30 P.M.
While the potatoes were roasting Mr. W. went down to our old camp and
got the cups which were then hidden near the beech at Rock Camp.

[193]
March 30, 1901.  Repeated trip of Mar. 19 with my botany class.  We
reached Brooklyn about 10.30 A.M.  On the road we observed the Maples
and Populus alba in full bloom.  On the road to the little ravine we 
found Draba verna, Stellaria media and Capsella-bursa-pastoris in abundance.
All the early flowers of Capsella do not mature seed so that we had to
search carefully and found but few specimens far enough advanced to
show its peculiar little <s>pods</s> capsules.  Besides these we found also
Sisymbrium Thaliana [Thalianum] and Lamium amplexicaule, but not very many in bloom.
In the little ravine we found of course Skunk Cabbage in abundance, also
Acer rubrum and Alnus serrulata, and in the brook Chryosplenium
Americanum just beginning to bloom.  On our way, we found, in several
places, <s>where a</s> large snakes killed and hung up on the low branch.  They
were all the same species -- the hog-nose snake.  It seems a pity that these
poor creatures should be so cruely slaughtered.  Later, my party also caught
        