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July 22, 1903.  With Mr. W. to Owings Mills.  We took the car that leaves[left]
the corner of Charles & Lexington Sts. at 10 A.M.  It was after 11 when
we reached O.M.  We went at once to the meadow north of the town.
We hoped to-day to find Habenaria peramoena in flower.  We searched
diligently but no plants were found for some time.  Polygala sanguinea
was found quite frequently, and one solitary plant of Campanula aparinoides
later, however, I found more of this plant near the power-house.  Finally
a solitary Habenaria is bud was found.  Soon after I call Mr. W's 
attention to two handsome spikes of flower, a short distance away, I
thought surely they were Habenarias, but on closer approach, we found
that they were Phlox maculata.  Another Habenaria in bud was now
found.  We were now close to a large oak and as it was 12 o'clock
we decided to get in its shade and eat our lunch.  It was quite cool
and pleasant here.  After dinner, we went to the spring.  We were
now in that part of the meadow where Spiraea tomentosa and Spiraea salicifolia
grow.  They were both in flower.  We now decided to go to the meadow, where
we found so many specimens of the Habenaria, last year.  On the way, I found
Lilium superbum in flower.  When we reached the meadow we saw that it
had been drained; not a plant of the Habenaria was seen.  As we did
not go through the meadow, but contented ourselves looking on from the railroad
        