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salicifolia.  Close to the tracks grew Fox Grapes in abundance
and here, too, I found a pretty variety of Pteris aquilina.  We now 
started back to the electric line, close by and in a few minutes
were on our way to the city.  At D.R. we tranferred to the
car passing <s>thought</s> through Mt. W.  We were home a little
before 9 P.M.

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August 5. 1902.  An afternoon trip, alone, to the swamp at 
Mt. W. and then to L.  I left home at 2 P.M.  At the swamp
I found Habenaria ciliaris in full bloom, 27 specimens were
counted.  One large beautiful purplish butterfly was seen
visiting the flowers.  I got very close, hoping to see it
dislodge the pollini<s>es</s>a, but the insect was too quick.  Their
peculiar bodies, so very characteristic of the orchids, are very
easily removed.  I spent some time, pressing the tip of my finger
lightly into the open flower, when the pollinia would at once
become attached and on removing the finger would be drawn from
out of the anther cells.  The two pollen-masses would then
come to-gether slightly and would thus, when the insect visited the
next flower, go inside the anthers and touch the stigma.  I
pollinized quite a number of flowers and will visit the
        