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[underline]] Woods [[/underline]]

Aug. 9. - In going along the edge of the woods we saw clematis draping the trees - one cluster of flowers crowned with a brown butterfly.
Inside a dry patch of woods & also under pines along the road we saw masses of the curious interrupted fern - the green of the frond being interrupted by the brown fruit.
We found the feathers & a few bones of a hawk & soon came to a farm house.  Blueberries growing in massive clusters deliciously sweet showed the luxuriance of the crop or lack of children in the farm house.  The farmer was walking away across his acres & a white-haired woman came out to pump water as we climbed the fence & went off. 
In dry pine woods we found the big orbicular glossy & somewhat viscid leaves of  [[underline]] Habenaria orbiculata. [[/underline]]
A pine standing out in the front rank of trees in afternoon has dark depths, & sun touched tips.
The cones are ^[[insertion]] green hanging [[/insertion]] in pairs now.
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Aug. 22 - The hobble bush fairly brightens the woods in places now.  The berries are a bright red. Some