
          963.

* The flowers have a sweet delicately spicy odor - nutmeg like.
Slugs were observed eating gills of mushrooms

was so depressed in the centre that it was cup-shaped and retained
water.  When either it or the gills were bruised, a milky juice
exuded.  My first Tipularia was found just before reaching
the Holly tree.  It was a fine specimen with 29 blossoms.  Not a
leaf was visible.  I dug the plant up carefully.  I then observed
the remains of the old leaf stalk.  The flower* stalk grows out from
the apex of the fleshes conical corm, which shows plainly the prominent
leaf scar.  From the base of the corm grew two shoots, one immediately
in front and one back, destined to become the young plants for
next year.  Attached to the corm were still last year's corm, still 
firm and year before last's, now rather shriveled.  From the base
of the new shoots, new roots were already proceeding.  These thick
fleshy roots seem to proceed almost in any direction.

It did not take me long to reach the Tipularia spots near
the bent tree.  In each spot were 7 plants.  One examined
had attached to it the remains of last year's flower stalk with
ripened seed vessels, showing that the plant may bloom two years
in succession.  I went also to the spot where the crooked
tree grows and here I found two more in flower.

In the swampy places I found Habenaria tridentata in bloom
        