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near the house.  On the other side of the main road I came to an ice
pond.  While walking near the pond I smelled something disagreeable
thought it must be carrion; later, however, Mr. W. discovered the cause
on the opposite side of the road where I had walked he found an immense Phallus, more than
six inches long and about 2 in. in diameter.  These peculiar fungi are well named.  
It was about 3 o'clock when we decided to leave our camp.
We took the path on the east side of the brook.  It led only a short 
distance into the woods and ended abruptly near the stream.  We were
quite pleased with our trip through the ravine.  In some places we
thought it as pretty as in our ravine.  The trip, though seemed very long
no doubt because we thought we had made more progress than we
did during the morning.  On our way we passed several large fields.
In one of these we found the Day Lily growing luxuriantly, here too, was
a large patch of Rudbeckia hirta.  The sight of these pretty flowers was
grand from a distance and more so when we were in their midst.

A little Cattail swamp near by contained nothing of interest.  
For sometime we had been looking for the Country Home, now at last it
came into sight.  For some time we had been looking out for Passiflora
lutea, but although we continued our search now yet more energetically we
failed to find the plant.  It was about 5 o'clock when we came to the

        