
          704.

*vide May 10.
** marked last year
***Thread worms species of Gordian

a wonder it has not been taken.  We marked the spot carefully
with a stick and mound, and tied also a piece of wood on the
branch of a Maple immediately above the plant.  I saw at
once that this was not the plant I had seen on my last trip*
and after a little search found it also. We saw that the plant
still retained its withered flower.  It was now marked too with
the stick and mound and we further observed that the large
oak near it was inclinded towards the south.  The little tree
which had been marked is a Fringe Tree.  We now went to the
Tipularia places, but not a plant was in bloom.  I now looked
at my marked** Podophyllum plants.  Nothing new was learned from 
them; new growth had sent up in one case a sterile branch and
in the other a fertile one,  but the bud under last year's stick
branch had not developed in either case.  We now went back
to the spring.  In the water were several long white threads***.  I 
thought that they were the thread like roots of some plant.  Mr. W.
thought that perhaps they were pieces of cotton thrown in by some the
ladies that accompanied me on the April trip.  We each got one of
pieces out and we soon saw that they <s>moved</s> had the power to move.
A piece placed in the palm of my hand curled up most wonderfully
        