
          trip of Dec. 3.  Before reaching the Patapsco, it had begun to
snow and continued to do so the rest of the day.  It was
a wet snow and soon made the trees look<s>ed</s> most
beautiful.  Secured a number of woody fungi, Polyporus
on my way along the River R'd.  They were growing on a willow.
Arrived at Catonsville about 3 p.m.  From C. I proceeded to Clifton
Park.  Learned that the plants I observed on my last trip were Amorpha
and Rhodotypus.

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Dec. 31, 1904.  I took a trip to-day along Gwynn's Falls.  The
warm weather during the past few days has melted most of
the snow, still, in the thick woods & in <s>abov</s> among the
brush there is still pleaty of snow.  To-day, it is remarkably
warm, the thermometer rising to 58°; the air is so balmy, it
seems like an ideal spring day.

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Jan. 2, 1905.  The first trip of the new year.  It is quite warm,
cloudy, and threatening to rain.  Took W. & P. across the river to B.
and we paid a visit to the skunk cabbage region.  Skunk cabbage
was found in full bloom & so also were the dandelion, 
chickweed and Poa annua.
        