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plenty more of it.  After leaving the little ravine, I followed the narrow
path towards the swampy borders along the shore.  I went along this route
mainly to see Lycopodium lucidulum, which I hoped might be found in fruit.
I found many patches of the plant but none with fertile stems.  I see Gray
mentions August as the proper time, so will look up the plant in the proper time.
While looking for the Lycopodium I saw that vandals had cut down two fine
Holly-trees -- Ilex opaca -- these trees were each more than 6 inches in diameter.
Near one of these fallen trees, I made my camp.  I built a small
fire, just large enough to warm the oysters I had for my dinner.  After dinner I continued my investigations.  Throughout the swampy ground grew
Symplocarpus foetidus, of all shades, but mostly of a dark maroon color.
I opened several (3 or 4) spathes to see if the flowers were really "in bloom" and
found some in which the anthers had shed their pollen.  My most interesting
observation [--?] of this plant to-day was the peculiar, almost as if cut off, condition
of a fairly large percentage of the spathes.  In every case these 
particular plants grew in water and most of them were tightly closed.
The first one I observed was in the little ravine, seeing a nice spathe
standing several inches out of the water, in which it was growing, I took hold of it
to observe it more closely and was somewhat surprised, when I found that
I could pull it out readily <s>of the</s> from the plant.  Its stalk was about
        