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record in 33 years.  So much moisture has caused it to be an ideal
month for the Fungi.  During the day I collected a number of
pretty specimens.  We had not proceeded far along the path, when it
began to rain.  It was not a heavy rain, but it succeeded in making
all the foliage thoroughly wet.  Had we been able to keep on broad
paths we would not have gotten wet at all.  As it was though, our
feet and legs became quite wet by passing through the foliage.  We soon reached
the Lygodium place and I stopped to examing the pretty ferns.  I was
sorry that everything was so wet, as it prevented me entering the
little thicket where the fern grew most profusely.  Those along the
path however were examined most carefully.  Nearly all the plants
now are uncoiling the fertile portion of their frond.  Growth though
in length has not as yet been completed as the slightly coiled
end testifies.  Many of the fronds have risen to a height of more 
than three feet.  The direction of twining was examined and in all
cases it was from right to left.  The few sticks that had been planted
upright among them by Mr. W. last time, had been made use of.  To-day
we examined the ground to the right of the path a little more closely and
were pleased to find hundreds more of the pretty fern.  Gaultheria
procumbens is now in bloom.  Very close to the Lygodium we found specimens

        