
          864.

* The thermometer reached 71°
** Tremella

blew a gale.  I thought there would be hail but there was none.
The storm ceased almost as quickly as it came up and sun again 
shone brightly and a pretty rainbow appeared*.  It was about
4 o'clock when I reached T.  It was 5 when I arrived home.
To-day found some of those peculiar gelatin-like fungous masses**
on decaying wood.  On acc't of the rain they were very gelatinous,
last Monday on our trip to Back River Neck, we found them 
too, but then they were very much shriveled and had the appearance
of scales.

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March 2, 1903.  An afternoon trip to the ravine near Brooklyn to examine
Skunk Cabbage.  It was about 5 p.m. when I reached the ravine
so had only about an hour to make my observations.  On my way through
B. I noticed that the Silver maples were in bloom.  To trip was taken
to observe the number of plants of the Symplocarpus found in bloom, so as to note later
the percentage found in fruit and also to see if cross-pollination
would increase the number of fruits.  The first place I observed was on
the hillside to the right; here in a moist place I found 36 plants
in flower, they had altogether 54 spathes.  Farther down on the 
same side of the ravine I came to a very wet place, the whole place
was covered with an inch or two of water.  Here in a much smaller
        