
          497.

one alive, I'm sorry to say, to take along with them for museum purposes.
We reached the path along the river at 12 o'clock and here on the hillside
we ate our lunch.  After dinner we did but very little collecting
we, however, got enough specimens of the Skunk Cabbage that each
might dissect one and learn <s>the</s> its various parts.  This along with 
reviewing the different specimens collected took us up to 3 P.M.
While we were seated at this work, a large flock of black birds
alighted in the tree tops quite close to us.  They kept up an incessant
din, reminding me very much of my observation last year.  After our
lesson we started homeward, reaching home about 4 P.M.  The day was
partly cloudy, but otherwise very pleasant.

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April 5, 1901.  Good Friday.  A beautiful clear day.  Temperature
delightfully warm.  Made an afternoon trip towards the old frame
house[note at top of page: South of the spring on the road along the Patapsco (near Brooklyn) A.A. Co.] in search for Schweinitzia.  The sycamores which all during
the winter held their balls of fruit tightly closed now fall to pieces
with the slightest touch.  In the little ravine I found Sanguinaria
and Lindera both in bloom; the latter just opening.  Podophyllum
is now peeping up everywhere and Symplocarpus is making the bogs
green.  The Red Maple is in full bloom.  From the hillside near
the house one obtains a most enchanting view of the maples all aglow;
        