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bearing alternate leaves.  The branches although they may start out with
alternate leaves change to opposite leaves even those bearing fruit.
The fruit when it first ripens is of a salmon color, later however it
may become pure white.  The fruits are filled with sweet juice
tasting very much like our white mulberry, filled to overflowing
for <s>it</s>they cannot be touched without soiling the fingers.  Flies and
other insects abound <s>near</s> on them sipping the sweet juice.

I stopped also to examine the leaves of the Honey locust.  These
at first are simply pinnate but later are bipinnate.  All along the
stems of last year's growth, at the leaf scars, were fassicles of 2, 3
or 4 pinnately compound leaves.  These of course were extremely short
stem bearing alternate pinate leaves, and fascicled only because of its
shortness.  On the terminal shoots the internodes lengthened
sufficiently to carry these leaves somewhat apart and all the later
ones were bi-pinnate.

I now went to the Tipularia places, stopped though again to
examine Lycopdium lucidulum near the old Holly.  This time I
found it in fruit.  I was pleased, too, to find near the old
tree Poterium Canadense.  On the path I stopped, too, to examine
some mushrooms.  They belonged to the Agaricaceae.  The pileus, though
        