
          851.

branch, to specimen No. 1 I tied two white bands, but to specimen No. 2
I tied but one band, but used it to tie together 2 stalks of the plant.
Several plants of I. glabra were also found and a few too of Myrica
cerifera. I left this swamp about noon and then entered the one
<s>to</s> the right of the road.  Here, too, I found Symplocarpus foetidus
but none with spathes that were loose like those found <s>in</s> near Brooklyn.
Here, too, I found Sarracenia and noted that the fruits of the Rhus
venenata were beginning to fall from the plant.  The berries do not drop
off singly, but he entire cluster falls at one time.  While looking around
I found a nice cone, still containing seed, of Pinus rigida.  I was somewhat
surprised, for it looked as if it had been pulled from the tree.  I soon found an
explanation.  A few steps from the first cone, I found another, and then another, and
then came to a fallen tree.  Here I found a large heap of the gnawed off scales
of these cones and scattered about were the <s>ma</s> central axes of the cones
surrounded with what remained of the gnawed off scales.  In another heap were the wings of
seeds.  It seems as if the squirrels, for it surely must be their work, and they
that eat the seeds of the Tulip tree, first gnawed off the scales to secure the seeds
and then later remove the wings.  In another heap were, too, the empty samaras
of the Tulip tree.  With the Pine scales I found the remains of a number of large
slightly flattened fruits, which I think may be the achenes of some sedge, a species of
        