
          978.

* The day was partly cloudy.  This is the first day the sun has
shone for 6 days. The wind is still from the east.
** In the marshy ground I found the fruit of Symplocarpus, apparently ripe

we started homeward.  Another good picture, we secured, was of a
charcoal burner's hut.

466.
September 2, 1903.  Through the ravine with friends K. & B.  We met
at the Catonsville terminus at 9 o'clock.  We expected Mr. W. but he did
not come.  We went by way of V's and the open field.  The Cardinal 
flower was found in full bloom.  I think it is a little more plentiful
than it has been for years.  Both K. & B. were greatly pleased to see it
neither of them having seen it before.  Chelone glabra was found
quite abundantly in the little swamp not far from the field.

When we reached the vicinity of Owl Srping, I visited the Tipularia
spot.  One plant was still in bloom, the flower were rather faded
though.  We then went to the spring and here we ate our lunch.  I was
very much surprised to find that some tramps must have made <s>it</s>
their camp close by, for, close to a tree was a bag of salt and near it
a bag, half full of ground coffee, here, too, were matches wrapped in paper.
Near another tree was a package, which I think contained food.  It was
mouldy.  In the top of a tree was another mouldy package.  Two empty
cans were on the ground.  After dinner** we went to Camp Run and
then to my new spring, after which we continued our way through the ravine
I collected quite a number of Fungi, my best find being a species of
        