
          820.

hillside.  We came to small side stream bordered on each side by a 
moist meadow, we thought that along the stream would be an
ideal place for Gentiana crinita.  When we reached the top of the
hill we had a beautiful view of Hilton, where the Ransom's live,
the Country Home, and another large home which we think must be
Cromwell's.  On the hillside we found Chrysanthemum Leucanthemum
in bloom, Mr. W. collected enough of the flowers to make a pretty
bouquet.  Other plants in bloom, on this hillside were Cerastium viscosum,
Verbascum Thapsus and Taraxacum officinale.  We had already found Trifolium
pratense, Daucus Carota, Lobelia syphilitica, Erigeron strigosus and Rudbeckia
hirta.  We not went down the hillside and again came to the brook.  We
found the scenery here very beautiful, much like, in our own pretty
ravine.  Just beyond an old water course of the stream we came to a little
thicket, here we found a vine climbing by means of delicate tendrils
with large oval blue black berries (½ in. in diameter), hanging on long finely thread-like peduncles
more than 3 in. in length.  The vine now was withered.  The berries were
insipid, filled with purplish juicy meat, and contained 8 flattened seeds, beautifully
ridged [sketch of seed] about 1/8 in. in diameter.  They (the berries) were raised on a stalk
about ½ in. long, much thicker than the peduncle at the end of which were
still to be seen traces of the calyx.  I determined the plant to be Passiflora lutea
        