
          815.

Never before, in all of our trips, have we found a spot, that could supply
so many pretty well-protected camps, one, for no matter what kind of weather.  We
climbed to the top of the highest boulders and explored all the 
caves.  It was half past ten when we decided to go to E. and from 
there to F. H. and Robinson's dam.  After some walking we got to E.
and here we were directed to Mr. Wood.  Mr. W. is quite crippled and 62
yrs. of age.  He went a short distance with us.  We next passed
Mrs. Warfield's and finally we came to the road leading to the dam.
Just before coming to this road we made one of the best finds
we have ever made and that is a new locality for Lygodium palmatum.
It seems as if both of us saw the bright green at the same time and
I had just said "What can it be," when Mr. W. called out, "It is Lygodium";
and what an immense lot of it, hundreds of the beautiful
climbing plants!  Here, surely, the plant was growing at its best.
When we entered the swamp we found Lygodium everywhere. Fertile fronds
which have been so exceedingly scarce hitherto were here by hundreds.
Had I only found them several weeks earlier, for now most of then, that is the
fertile parts, were brown.  Still I secured several of them, one was at least
five feet long.  I observed that the plant twines from right to left, contrary to
the motion of the sun.  The plant extended on both sides of the road. I found
        