
          1089.

rubber boots, and umbrella.  I went my usual route so as to secure
a few pods of the Gleditschia near the culvert.  Arrived at the little
ravine I began my search for Podophyllum, but it was some time
before I found a trace of it.  The winter has been so severe that it
is far backward.  Finally, however, I found it in a warm spot
<s>carf</s> carefully noted last year.  Not a trace of it, however, was
visible until I had scraped away the leaves.  In the pool near
by Spirogyra was flourishing and the many seedlings of Impatiens
looked healthy and flourishing.  I searched also for Smilacina
racemosa, but found no trace of it, nor also any of Indian Turnip.
From the ravine I went to the Skunk Cabbage region where I
secure[d] a great many specimens.  I was very anxious to go to the
Arbutus region but it had rained so very hard and not being able
to use my umbrella in the thick underbursh, I was already quite
soaked, so deemed it wisest to start for home where I arrived
a little past two o'clock.

532
March 26, 1904.  To Brooklyn and vicinity.  It was 7 o'clock when
I left home; it was cloudy and it looked like rain.  The weather
was delightfully warm and spring-like.  Arrived in B, I took the
usual route to the little ravine and the Skunk Cabbage district
        