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*A fine tree of this species nar the bridge at O. G.   a small tree also with the
Papaw in the little gully between the ravine and O. G.

** See notes on Elm. for April 23.

Run Camp.  Here I showed them the Solea concolor.  It <s>was</s> is
just coming into flower.  <s>The</s> Camp Run was now followed
and when we reach [reached] Camp Cozy we recrossed the brook.
Here we found several large Aplectrum.  Two young trees in 
this camp were destroyed by the sleet storm.  The samaras
of U. fulva were observed several times on our way through the
ravine.  They seem now ripe.  I observed that the fruit of
such trees not affected by the grubs** is much larger; still this
may only have been caused, because the tree ripened fewer samaras;
for strange to say in the affected trees the umbels were
crowded (12 to 18 in a cluster) and here these were but 6 in the
cluster.  In the affected trees the samaras are almost spherical
instead of flat.*  We had also the opportunity to observe the
difference between A. dasycarpum & A. rubrum.  The leaf of the
former is more deeply lobed and the back of the leaf & petiole
is densely pubescent.  Its [keys] too are pubescent and divergent where
those of rubrum are not and hang on very long pedicels.

We got through the ravine about two o'clock.  Just as [we] were near
the end of this part of our trip we had a little shower.  It did
not last long.  We crossed the Patapsco at O.G. and then
        