
          904.

They <s>are begin</s> look very much delapidated though now and
would no doubt be passed unnoticed if we did not know the place
so well.  Young fronds are springing up everywhere and are already
9 to 12 inches high, its small leaflets, one or two pairs only as yet
visible are still quite small and not at all like those on mature plants.
We now went to the pond <s>and</s> to our other Lygodium spot.  What
a sight presented itself here, the ground everywhere was burned over.
We approached the spot with many misgivings.  At last we reached
it and as we had already surmised, it, too, was completely burned over
and only a few of the old fronds still remained hanging to the brush
and showed where the plants had been.  No new fronds were
anywhere visible.  The <s>leaves</s> ground was burned over in many places right
down to the water, and even the Pitcher Plant and Sphagnum had been
attacked.  All the young foliage had drooped and was withering on
the various woody plants.  The place looked so very bad that we
did not remain very long but hastened onward to the other side
of the pond.  On the way I planted the seeds of Helonius bullata.
What was our surprise to find that the other side, too, was burned
over almost as completely as the side <s>f</s> we had just left.  It looked
to us as if the burning had been done systematically.
        