
          940.

with unusually large flowers.  I was surprised to find that the flowers, too, contained
the oil of Gaultheria, in fact, all parts of the flower contained it.  We now
decided to go to R's so returned to the station.  On our way back we
observed the great abundance of Chimaphila maculata in bloom, occassionally
the flower has 6 petals instead of 5.  Dewberries and Raspberries are
now ripe and I stopped frequently to eat the lucious fruit.  When
we got back to the station we found both Mr. Brewer and Mr. Pumphrey there.  They
were sitting on the porch in front of the station reading, and were busily employed
driving away the flies, swarms of which were around the place.  We
learned to-day that Mr. P. is 73 yrs old.  He told us that his place adjoined 
Glenn's.  There were 7000 A. [acres] in the Glenn property.  He had more than
400 A. [acres]  His property had been held by his family for more than 200 yrs.
He still has the original deed given to his great-great grandfather by the Calverts.
After resting a little while, for we both felt very tired, we started for Marley bridge.
On the way we found several specimens of Ranunculus acris.  Before we
reached the post office it had stopped raining.  During the rest of the day, it was
only partly cloudy.  Steironema lanceolatum was found on the left side of the
road beyond the blackberry patches.  When we reached M.B. we decided to 
eat our lunch.  As the foliage was so wet we could not go far from the
road, so did not cook coffee.  After dinner we went to R's and borrowed 
        