
          724.

* Not likely

of the Cinnamon fern grew here.  Aspidium Noveboracense
grew here in immense patches and I managed to get several more
specimens for my press.  I collected also specimens of Asplenium
thelypteroides, which, too, were abundant.  From the ravine, I went to
the path along the river.  Here it was delightfully pleasant,
and as it was already half past eleven, I decided to eat my lunch.
I then went into the lowland between the path and the river.
Here I found several Amelanchiers* with fruit, still green
however.  I noticed too, that this tree had been attacked by
the locusts.  The ground everywhere is now strewn with the dead
twigs containing the eggs depositied by these insects.  I examined
a branch thinking that perhaps the eggs had developed into grubs
but they had not.  Here, in the lowland, the Cinnamon fern
was growing luxuriantly, but I found nowhere the variety
I noticed though that many of the ferns had been attacked by a
caterpillar (?).  The ends of the fronds were rolled up <s>li</s> into
a ball & in the center lived the grub surrounded with several
times its weight of dung.  The Aspleium thelypteroides was attacked
by the same insect & in the same way.  Some of these balls were 
more than an inch in diameter.  I searched <s>about</s> everywhere
        