
          852.

* They remind me somewhat of the ahenes [achenes] of the sun-flower, and are nearly their size.

Carex no doubt.*  These were gnawed into, some at each end, some at only 
one end and the seed extracted.  When I first collected these strange seeds I
thought that they were the seeds of the pine, and so did not look about to see
if I might find the plants from which they had been taken.  I taste the seeds
of the pine, and find them rather disagreeable, tasting like turpentine.  As I 
left this swamp I marked another Ilex laevigata, close to the field and 
very near the road.  I now visited the low ground near the pond and north
of the first path.  Here I found another Pitcher plant with broad wings
to the pitchers.  Here, too, is a great deal of Ilex glabra.  Gaultheria 
procumbens was found frequently, it still had its berries.  Just as I reached
the little bridge, on the side of the road, (first path), I met Mr. Pumphrey.  He told
me that this path, as also the one near the pond, lead to the Annapolis R'd.  He
told me too, how to get to Severn Run, Whitehead Br., and Reedy Marsh.
It was about 5 o'clock when I started for home.  The day was partly cloudy
but not cold.  I reached home, about 7 o'clock.

To-day, for the first time, I found sprouted Symplocarpus seeds, the shoots
appear at a point, immediately opposite the peculiar depression in the seed.
From the base of the shoot appear several stout roots.  I found 6 of these
sprouted seeds, no doubt all from one fruit.  I searched afterwards for
more but no more were to be found.
        