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them into the cold water to cool for our dessert after
dinner.  After dinner we went to the inlet, intending
to cross and go to Marley Bridge.  But the tide was very
high and we had to go to the road.  It was now four o'clock
and as I wished to collect specimens of  Marsilia quadrifolia
we decided that Mr. W. alone go to Marley and I
return to the pond.  Since our last visit to Marley bridge
old Mrs. R. has died.  She was taken very sick with the
diarrhea, so sick that she was brought to the city for
treatment.  She was taken to a hospital where she died.
So while Mr. W. went to Marley bridge to pay his respects
to Mr. R. I went to the pond.  Marsilia was in fruit
and I collected a few good specimens.  On my way to the
pond I stopped first at the head of Furnace Branch, where
the water begins to get shallow, and collected a few specimens
of Habenaria tridentata, here too I found specimens of Osmunda
cinnamomea var glandulosa; and then in the bottom
land between the pond and the road, my first H. blephariglottis
spot, thirteen very fine specimens were found here.  After
collecting the Marsilia <s>and</s> I started onward to the old
        