
          467.

* see trip Feb. 2, 1901.

hastened onward and soon passed the pretty cottage of Mr. Watts.
Mr. W. seems to be a firm believer in ventilation for the bed-room
windows were all half-open.  Before long we were on the Anapolis R'd.
All day we were on the look out for cocoons, but had thus far found
but one besides a number of the peculiar felt-like ones.*  One of these was opened, in
it were an immense number of little eggs.  But <s>soon</s> when near the bridge
crossing Furnace Br. I found 4 on a peculiarly bad-scented willow.  We
reached Brooklyn about 6.45 where we took <s>the</s> a car for home.

A little attention was to-day paid the pines.  These species were
collected.  The low pine so frequently met, averaging 15-20 ft. in height,
leaves in 2's and generally about 2 in. long, is Pinus inops. Ait. the Jersey
or Scrub Pine.  The cones are about 2½ in. long, the scales of which are
tipped with a prickle about an ⅛ in. in length.  This prickle is generally
slightly recurved.  The tall pines (50 or more ft. high) the trunks of
which were found to be gently spirally twisted when bark was removed
were found to be P. rigida Mill., the Pitch Pine.  The trunks of these
trees are frequently 2 ft. in diameter at the base and rise to a height of
20 or more feet before reaching the first branch.  They form excellent telegraph
poles.  At G. we saw at least 150 of the finest which had been cut
down for this purpose.  The bark of this tree is in peculiar large rough
        