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perhaps this might have had something to do with the naming this
plant "the dog-tailed violet".  After examining the island, we
crossed the brook.  Close to the brook at this point stands a 
large beech.  Right at the base of this tree is a large patch of
20 Tipularia.  I marked the tree with my trowel.  As we passed
the pond we noticed that there still masses of salamander
eggs in it.  The little embryos have developed considerably, however,
and show life.  These egg masses were observed at best a
week before any frogs' eggs were noticed, still they are not fully
developed, no frogs' eggs on the other had have been seen for several weeks.
We recrossed the brook again, when we were at Owl Spring and
here we stopped to eat our lunch.  After dinner while the ladies
took a little rest Friend W. and I explored the rocks near the
brook.  I had taken with me some Cystopteris fragilis which had been
collected in the Catskills, and I transplanted it here on some of the
rocky ledges.  A marked Maple stands immediately over the spot
where they were planted.  Before doing-this, I had looked up the
several marked Cypripedium.  I found them well out of the ground
no buds, however, could as yet be observed.  After a  stroll of
about half an hour we returned to our party and we started for
        