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After dinner, I went to the spring and also to the brook.  I looked for
Symplocarpus, but did not find a single specimen.  Ilex opaca was plentiful
we found it everywhere.  I observed that some of the trees
have leaves very much larger than those on other trees and that they
were scarcely at all spinous.  Close to and above the spring I
found and marked a large patch (36 specimens) of Tipularia discolor.
It now began to rain again, I returned to the camp and we started
on our afternoon trip.  Just as we reached the road, we met Mrs. T.
who had been to the station.  We asked her about the road and
learned that we were were going right.  We introduced ourselves and Mrs. 
T. introduced herself.  Mrs. T. asked us to return to the house & have some dinner, but we thanked her and told her we had just eaten.  We then bade Mrs. T. good-bye, and started on along
the road towards the landing.  The shower did not last long, & we had no more rain till ready to start home.  On the roadside we found the small early
Carex in bloom.  Not far from the road leading to the landing live the
Brenans two brothers.  Each has a fine house, and one besides having the
nice house, has close by a store.  He is said to be rich.  We stopped
in his store and had a chat with him.  We learned that he is descended
from French speaking ancestors.  He told us of an old stone house, belonging
to Mrs. T. not far from Robinson's  that was well worth visiting.  We
were glad to hear about it and decided to go there on our return.  We now
continued our trip and finally reached the landing.  Not far from Brenan's

        