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* This plant like Nympaea ripens its seed under water.

Talinum in flower.  On the rocks too was a great deal of
Cerastium arvense var. oblongifolium. No locusts were heard.

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June 28, 1902.  With friend Wilkinson to Glenburnie. We
met at the corner of Ostend & Light Sts. <s>and</s> there took the
car to Brooklyn and then walked.  On the road we
stopped to examine some milkeed (Asclepias Cornuti)
we observed that several beetles had been caught and
held prisoners by the pollinia.  One of the insects was dead.
The others manged to extricate themselves carrying with
them the beautiful little flattened pear-shaped pollen-<s>p</s> masses.
A bumble-bee flew from flower to flower but I could not
see any of the pollen-masses adhering to him.  We reached
Furnace Br. about 10 o'clock and went at once to the pond.

Marsilia [Marsilea] quadrifolia is coming up finely but does not yet
look as fine as it did last year.  No sporocarps were as
yet visible.  The Water-shield (Bra<s>s</s>senia peltata) was
in bloom.  The flowers did not seem to be of as dark a
purple as I think they were last year.*  I got several specimens,
very good ones, for my press.  It was 11.30 when we ate
our dinner on the little knoll overlooking the pond.
        