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were again fairly dry.  It was 8 o'clock when we reached the terminus
and took the car for home.  To-day was the warmest day of this season
the thermometer having reached 95°.

452.
July 11, 1903.  A trip alone to the ravine.  Mr. W. did not accompany me,
because of the heat.  I took the camera with me and hoped to get a 
number of good views.  As I wished to have one of the pump-house
I went in that direction.  The sun was shining on it beautifully and I
think the picture will turn out all right.  From the pump-house I went to
Owl-spring, keeping on the left bank of the brook.  When I was but a
short distance from Owl Spring, quite close to the Tipularia spot, I saw high up in the trees what
I at first took for a large flag.  When I drew nearer, I saw that it was
a large baloon.  I suppose it was about 8 ft. long, I shook the trees, which
held it and in a few minutes had it in my hands.  It was torn in several places
and the seams were coming apart.  I did not think it, therefore, worth taking.
At Owl Spring, I ate my lunch.  The Lygodium is still growing and the 
Hepatica acutiloba is doing finely.  After dinner, I search the hillside for
Tradescantia Virginica.  Several plants were found.  They were, however, quite
withered.  It seems that as soon as the plant is done blooming, it dies
off to the ground.  I wished to get root tips, so dug up three of them.
The stalk arises from a mass of thick fleshy roots.  What, however, was most
        