
          1072.

enough it was arranged on the ½ plan.  I looked again and
I found also the ⅓ plan.  I soon saw that every twig was 
built on the same plan, near the tip it was ½ then ⅓ then
sometimes ¼ and finally ⅖, most generally ½, ⅓, and ⅖.
The twig, therefore, when it first begins to grow in the spring
and is growing vigorously arranges its leaves on the ⅖ plan
reducing it as its vigor declines to the ⅓ plan and finally to
the ½ plan.  I next examined the cause of the raspberry
the leaves here were arranged on the ⅓ plan, and so also did
I find those on the blackberry.  Upright shoots of rhus toxicodendron
were also examined these were arranged on the ⅓ plan.

I passed through the little ravine and then took the path leading
along the shore.  Skunk Cabbage everywhere! and plenty
of those curious elongated spathes which so readily pull out from
the plant.  In one place, I found a nice specimen, so set to
work to dig it up.  To do this I had first to remove a solid
covering of <s>it</s> ice four inches thick.  I now understood what the
face[force?] was that had produced the cleavage effects.  The water in 
freezing forms a firm hold around the spathe, and expanding breaks
it from the plant.  It was now noon, so I ate my lunch.

        