
          698.

* While I was collecting he went onward to Cedar Hill

large tree south of it,  I found a single plant of C. parviflora
It was in bloom.  I marked the tree nearest it by tying a piece of
cord around it and also by placing a rock close to the 
base of the tree.  I now went over to Camp Run.  The
Cyp. marked last year with a heap of stone and by tying two
white marks to the tree was up but not in bloom.
The day was a most depressing one for me and I felt very
little desire of examining anything.  I hastened home again after
being out about two hours.

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May 11, 1902.  Collected specimens of rhyzomes for Miss E.*
I was most interested in Podophyllum peltatum. The difference
in the scars left by the fertile & sterile branches is marked.
Those of the sterile have in their centre a conical bud.
None of these buds were found in a developed condition.
The scars left by the fertile branches are rather deep
pits like those in Smilacina racemosa. Several long pieces
of the rhizome were taken up to see if there were any
order in the development of fertile or sterile branches. There
apparently is no <s>law</s> order.  Sometimes there would
by two, three, or four, scars showing fertile branches, year after
        