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January 17, 1903.  With Mr. W. to Marley, Forest Home, Glenburnie
and vicinity.  We met in Brooklyn at 8 A.M.  There has been quite
a change in temperature  since last Saturday, to-day the thermometer
went as high as 57°, at no time was it below 37°.  The roads when we
started were firm and frozen but before noon they became very muddy.
While going along the Annapolis R'd, I remembered that it was along
this road that I first found Celastrus scandens, so kept a look-out
for it.  We found the plant still in its old place.  Quite a number
of the plants may be found on the west side of the road, along the
border of the field <s>south</s> north of Mr. Pumphrey's home.  Later we found it
too, north of Stalling's, also on the west side of the road.  At Furnace
Branch we left the Annapolis R'd and took the one to Marley bridge.
On our way we stopped a few moments to eat a little lunch and
then proceeded to R's where we stopped a short while and paid our respects
to the new Mrs. R.  We found the branch less frozen than we had expected;
Spring Gardens was completely frozen but here there was ice only close
to the shore.  We did not remain at R's very long, but continued our trip
to M.  Men were painting the bridge, but from this appearance one might think
they had been painting each other.  They were painting with a will, anxious to
get through with their work, for, as they said, there would soon be a big
        