
          807.

we decided to visit the old mill on Marley Branch.  On our
way down the tracks we stopped to examine the little ravine, to
see if any of the Gentiana crinita seeds, planted two years ago, had
germinated.  Some of the seeds had been planted near the crooked
tree and some near a marked tree, but nowhere were any plants 
to be found.  When we came to the next ravine, we entered it to
see if we could find any specimens of G. Andrewsii; we did not find
any of the plants.  We left the ravine and continued our walk along
the tracks. We soon reached Marley Branch.  We then left the tracks
and followed the stream going towards its source, for we wished to-day to see the
old mill.  In a little while we reached the spring which I had seen on my
<s>last</s> trip.  We then went up the hillside deciding to ask at the house
where the old mill was.  The house was a two-story structure built of
heavy timber and plaster.  As soon as we saw the snug house we said
that we thought that Germans occupied it.  We were right too. Before we
reached the house we saw the old mill to our left.  We, however, went
to the house and rapped at the door.  A woman opened the door, it was
Mrs. Baierlein, she was all alone with her daughterinlaw, quite a young
woman. We took her for a child of 15, but we learned that she had already
been married two years and had had two children.  Mrs. B. is related to
        