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Twice on the road I stopped to examine the snail.  On account
of the damp cloudy weather they had as yet not sought any shady
retreat and were found some distance from the road side.  In
my experiments I noted that their so-called eyestalks(?) behave 
more like antennae (feelers).  A stick placed immediately in front
of the creature does seem to be seen, for it continues its
course until its body comes quite in contact with the obstacle.
With a small stick one eye-stalk may pass on either side
of it, yet the animal continues onward until its head touches
the stick before it first notices that it cannot keep on in that
particular direction.  I stopped next a few moments at Mr. S.'s
and here noted for the first time a fine fig plant.  Mr. S. says
it bears two crops a year the first ripening in June.  He thinks
the plant has no flowers.  I reached Furnace Br. about
11 o'clock and entered the swamp on the south side.  About
four years ago I found here Aspidium cristatum, but although
I searched for it several times since, I <s>had</s>never again found
it.  To-day, therefore, I thought I would try again.  I searched
carefully, and was just about giving it up, when I found the
spot.  The fertile fronds average about 2 ft. in high and are linear-
        