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[[underlined]] Outlet Swamp [[/underlined]]

On the way back we tried to cut across through the [[strikethrough]] marsh [[/strikethrough]] swamp grass & bushes but we had to wade up to our waists in the dense green mass & it was such hard work we returned to the old road.  On our way out through the cranberry bog we flushed 2 short-billed marsh wrens.
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[[underlined]] Aug. [[/underlined]] 9 - In the dryer part near the woods where there is less sphagnum & cranberry, in the grass we found quantities of pitcher plants.  Turning around where I stood, at a glance I counted 23 heads (seed pods, petals having fallen) standing up to the level of the grass tops. One plant had [[underlined]] 42 [[/underlined]] pitchers - some brown & dry but most of them in water holding order & beautiful with thin red veining.  Is that their device for attracting insects?  Draw your finger backwards up the throat of the pitchers & see the fate of the insect that is caught.  Alas! The cruelty of nature!  [[underlined]] Die, [[/underlined]] that I may live!
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Looking out on this field from another point - up the woods, we saw a collection of silky, white grass (?) tops - [[underlined]] 'cotton tops' [[/underlined]] beautiful on the level of the grass.  Mixed with them was a few pink Habenarias, though they are mostly out of bloom.

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