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delightful on the shore and we enjoyed it for nearly an 
hour.  We then returned to the station.  Here I got a specimen
of Iris versicolor and also some St. John's wort.  We started for
home about half past seven o'clock.

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June 7, 1902.  With Mr. W. to Lansdowne, Arbutus, Avalon,
Orange Grove and Catonsville.  We met at Camden station and
took the 7:35 A.M. train.  Reaching L. we went to the
Lygodium place. The fern was easily found; it is in a 
most florishing condition.  We dug out a number of the
plants for transplanting.  We thought, too, we would try also
a few Magnolia and for the purpose took a few cuttings also
a young plant.  I examined a few thrifty shoots of this
plant and saw the large stipules and how they protected the
younger growing parts within.  Each one is attached by one edge along the
entire length of the petiole, <s>by</s> the free portions of each are
united one to the other.  In the enclosed sac is a leaf-blade
folded nicely on the mid-rib in the upper surface and its stipules
making a sac similar to the ones described.  These stiplues contain
a still younger leaf similarly arranged and so.  It was nearly
nine o'clock when we left the swamp.  All along the road we
        