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the terminus about 7.30; it took one hour to walk from the Observatory
to the car.  Yesterday, it rained all day, at times very heavily.  To-day
it is much cooler; <s>it</s> not a better day could have been chosen for our
tramp.

445.
June 17, 1903.  Morning.  With Mr. F. to Lansdown[e] and vicinity.  We met
at the corner of Caton & Wilkins Avenue, at 8.30 A.M.  Quite a number of
variously sized ponds are to be found in this locality; they are all abandoned
iron ore pits.  We first visited the ponds north of Washington R'd and 
to the west of Caton Av.  None of these are rich in plant life, they
are no doubt too young.  Knowing that Aletris farinosa grew in the vicinity,
I asked Mr. F. if he had found it and he told me that he had found
it close by.  So when we returned to Caton Av. we entered the woods to
the east.  After walking a short distance we found a solitary plant
but as this was not the spot he wished to show me we continued our
trip.  We soon came to a place where they were digging sand, here, in
the open woods we found the Aletris in full bloom.  There were possibly 200
or more plants in bloom.  We now went back to Caton Av. and then to L.
Here we visited the other ponds.  These, either because they are older or because they
are more shallow are filled with plant life.  One pond was covered with
Spirodella [Spirodela] polyrrrhiza.  We had not the time to examine the<s>se</s> ponds as carefully
        