
          475.

* [sketch of pods]  The pods are about 2 in. long on peduncles nearly half their length.

Polanisia graveolens.  Only the dead, dried up remains were now to be seen, the
bleached seed pods standing out like arms of a candelabrum.*  These were
open at the top, and all the seed had already been disseminated; yet when
the wind blew the rattling of the pods sounded as if they <s>to</s> must still be filled
with seed.  The opening is only at the top, yet all the seed had been thrown out.
A short distance out and one comes to a curve in the railroad. Here is a large lumber yard and here may be seen <s>the remains of</s> what may some day become a huge pier.  The  driving
of the piles is completed and the greater portion has already been sawn
off at the level of the stream.  I estimated that there were at least
5000 piles used in its construction, 23 piles were used in its width and it
is fully 10 times as long.  This fine piece of work, which has been abandoned for
about 2 years, I hear is now likely to be completed, <s>O</s> a large company
having been found which will spend one and half million in the building
of 5 piers.  From the lumber yard, one has a good view of the fort. 
<s>Here</s> To-day, soldiers were practicing at the target.  When this occurs a red
flag is hoisted near the targets, as a signal to keep away.  The motion
of the target from my position appeared very peculiar.  I could see the waving of
a small red flag when the target was in position, the wind however made too
much noise to hear the report of the guns.  On my way home, I went through
the park.  An ash-leaved maple (Negundo aceroides) which had several of its
        