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[[top right corner date - Tuesday, August 11.]]
This was to be a day of comparative rest. The recent trips had furnished us with several flowers to be identified, those pressing [[ word- stricken]] required certain attention, and moreover we had not as yet explored the swamps and woods in the immediate neighborhood of the Mountain Pond.
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In the water at the southern end of the pond were growing Eriocaulon Articulatum, giving the appearance of a nail witha a globular head sticking in the water; the water-shield (Brassenia Schreberi) with its floating leaves and submerged red flowers and stem covered with a filmy coating; pickerel-weed with its spikes of brilliant blue flowers; and white and yellow water-lilies. Several plants of Lobelia Dortmanna could be seen but here they were all out of bloom. At the northern end of the lake however four splendid were blooming at such a distance from the shore that I had to wade out almost up to my neck to secure them. On the sides of the pond the trees come right down to the water's edge but at the ends there are mossy swamps with a kind of muck between them and the water itself. Here we found both kinds of Drosera, the small northern St. John's-wort ( Hypericum boreale), the yellow-eyed grass (Xyyis montana), Habenaria clavellata, Pogoria ophioglassoides,
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