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96 — 1885 — — Cambridge, Mass. Feb. 23 —— Yesterday morning Margie and I went out to Dorchester and staid till to-day with Mr. & Mrs. Churchill. Mr. C. & I spent a good deal of time inspecting his Herbarium. During a walk Sunday P.M. I collected one plant. Tanacetum vulgare, L. Akenes & receptacles. Field near the sidewalk. From last years plant. Dorcester, Feb. 23. ————— — Cambridge, Mass. Apr. 2 — I spent the day with Mr. J.R. Churchill at Meeting House Hill in Dorchester. We worked at his Herbarium most of the time. About noon there was quite a flurry of snow which disappeared very soon, however. In the P.M. we took a stroll. Rosa rubiginosa, L. Dorchester We found this plant in fruit in a meadow. We collected fruit. Mr. C. will collected floweres from the same bush later. —————
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97 — 1885 — — Cambridge, Mass. May 17 — This P.M. J.J. Greenough & I took a walk. The weather was clear and cool. Nature is beginning to look green at last though the trees have scarcely begun to show their leaves. We walked to the Powder House, Medford and then to the Reservoir at Tufts College. We then went to the Water works a short distance beyond the Reservoir where we saw some fine pumps. Then we recrossed the Mystic River to Arlington and thence home. Hierochloë borealis, Roem. & Schultes. I found this grass in a very wet meadow by Mystic River, Medford, by River St. I have never seen the grass growing before. It was not abundant.
— Cambridge, Mass. May 3 — A cool day. This P.M. I took a walk was Margie and Miss S. Wyman to Fresh Pond. Arctium lappa, L. Specimen from Fresh Pond Grove, showing the early rosette of leaves.
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98 — 1885 — — Cambridge, Mass. — May 24 — A beautiful, clear, cool day. This A.M. I started off with my box and took the Arlington Horse Car to Tuft St. going through Tuft St. & River St., brought me to the bridge over Mystic River in Medford. I then followed Mystic River to the Lower Basin of Mystic Pond. I walked round this Basin, enjoying the most beautiful views over the water. Everything new is fresh & greeen. I gathered a few specimens. Betula alba, var. populifolia, Spach. Specs. with staminata flowers on the shore of the Lower Basin, Medford. This birch is abundant along the shores. Salix rostrata, Rich. (Fide L.H. Bailey, jr.) ♀ {female} specs. from a shrub some in dry ground near the Lower Basin, Medford. Hierochloe borealis, Roem. & Schules. Same locality as the spec. of last May 17 —
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99 — 1885 — — Cambridge, Mass. June 7 — A most beautiful day. This P.M.I went off with J.J> Greenough to Turkey Hill in Arlington. A fine wood surrounds the hill. Vaccinium corymbosum & vacillans and Gaylussacia resinosa were growing in profusion in full flower. I gathered a few plants. Antennaria plantaginifolia, Hook. } Fine large ♀ {female} specimens. Vaccinium corymbosum, L. } Gaylussacia resinosa, Torr. & Gray } Arlington Open woodland. Turkey Hill } Salix rostrata, Richardson } Fine fruit. Open field. Hypoxis erecta, L. } Flowering specimens — woods — } Carex canescens, L. (Fide L.H. Bailey jr from specs. sent) Bog — Woods. Arlington.
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100 — 1885 — — Cambridge, June 15 — Mass — This P.M. I went up to Fresh Pond for a couple of hours before dinner. The Carices are up in abundance. Carex riparia, Curtis } Fide L.H. Bailey, jr. from similar {Carex} flava, L. } specimens sent him. {Carex} debilis, Mx. } Low ground near Fresh Pond. Stellaria graminea, L. Grassy field by Appleton St. ————— — Cambridge, Mass. June 20 — This P.M. after dinner I went up to Fresh Pond. The Carices are very abundant. Carex debilis, Mx. {Carex} conoidea, Schk. } → (Fide L.H. Bailey, jr. from similar specmens sent him growing with these) {Carex} stricta, Lam. → (Fide L.H. Bailey, jr) Moist grassy land, near Fresh Pond.