Walter Deane (1848-1930) Papers; Botanical notebook, 1882. Botany Libraries, Archives of the Gray Herbarium,, Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, Mass.

the Hamamelis virginica on the roadside near George Work's house with last year's pods upon it. It is the first I have seen in Southboro. I also gathered some branches of the Juniperus virginiana in fruit.

Southboro (I.) Juniperus virginiana. The specimens in press are all from the same tree which was growing on a dry hillside between Southboro & Cordaville. ————— Apr. 10th — Southboro — A light fall of snow last night still keeps nature back. This P.M. I gathered ÷ (2) & (3). Staminate catkins

see note ↙ on Aug. 1st of the Populus (grandidentata or tremuloides) from two trees 12 to 15 ft. high growing in sandy ground near the track at the foot of Chestnut Hill. (4) Young fruit of Hamamelis virginica from a shrub near the top of Chestnut Hill. ————— Apr. 11th — Southboro — This morning I took a walk with Rollie and we found the Symplocarpus thicker than I ever saw it. I got two specimens which were remarkably large which I am pressing. ———

Apr. 12th — Southboro. I took down to Dr. Gray this morning a box of young seedlings of the Symplocarpus. I did not succeed, while gathering them yesterday, in finding any of this year's sprouts. They were all one, two or three years old yet the seed was firmly attached to the root-stock. Dr. Gray told me that the seed could remain on for that length of time. None of the seeds had more than one plumule, though they sometimes have two or three. I examined a cross section of a seed and found it thus —

[drawing] It is exalbuminous and the main part consists of a fleshy, corn like cotyledon and radicle, with the plumule opposite the hilum — The structure is curious and worth careful study — ————— Apr. 13th — SouthboroThis morning I went down opposite the cemetary on the Cordaville Road and dug up with a trowel 5 plants of the Symplocarpus. Three of them I have expressed to Dr. Gray with some sections of root stock. I cut up one specimen and saw the flower growing in the axil of one of the sheathes or modified leaves Vide June 6th —

which surrounds the flower and leaf stalks. I cut some sections of root stock and also unrolled some of the convolute leaves which are of a very delicate yellow and I shall press them and try to keep their color. This P.M. I went down to the swamp just beyond the cemetary and dug up 60 sprouting seeds of the Symplocarpus, not one of which had more than one plumule, so I imagine they ae not easy to find. I am pressing a number of the young shoots and some sections of the seed. I shall also keep

some whole seeds. I have put in press some Corylus americana with male and female flowers which I picked on the cross road between the Bucks and the Marlboro road. ————— Apr. 14th — Southboro — This morning I visited my Equisetum but it is not far enough advanced to gather. I picked some Juniper {Juniperus} communis at the foot of Chestnut Hill. The ♂ & ♀ {male & female} of the Alnus are out and the ♂ {male} catkins of Comptonia aspleniifolia are developing. I also saw on a sunny bank some Chelidonium majus quite well advanced. A few warm days will change the face

of nature wonderfully. (5) Juniperus communis Foot of Chestnut Hill. ————— This A.M. I found a Smilax rotundifolia L. high climbing. the first time. I have seen the plant. ————— Apr. 15th — Southboro This A.M. took a long walk of about 7 miles. While on my way through a long lane leaving from the Southville road a little below where Hixon's lane runs into it, to Westboro, I found some more Smilax rotundifolia (Greenbrier) just before I got to

the granite post dividing Southboro from Westboro on the lest of the road. ————— Apr. 21st Cambridge This PM. while walking through Cambridge Common I saw the Capsella bursa-pastoris, (Shepherd's Purse) growing by the trees. ————— Cambridge Apr. 22nd The white & red maples and the elms are now well in flower though the cold weather still holds everything back. I find from the flowering of the elm just on teh right of the entrance to Mr. McKensie's church and the one in the corner of the Catholic church grounds corner

of Concord Ave and the back entrance to Father's that they are the Ulmus campestris (English Elm) — ————— Cambridge Apr. 23. My birthday. Margie gave me a lovely pocket magnifying glass with a tortoiseshell case. We spent to-day at my cousin Rob Lord's, Newton. The P.M. we took a long drive through Newtonville, Newton Upper Falls, Needham & West Newton. In Newtonville I dug up some Sanguinaria canadensis. At Needham I dug up a number of the Hepatica triloba, the first time I have ever seen them growing.

They were on a rather dry hillside, the flowers were peeping up through the dry leaves which covered the ground. This A.M. I cut some specimens of the Acer rubrum & Ulmus americana in flower, in Newton near Rob's house. All these specimens I am pressing.

I shall go to Rob's when the leaves are out to verify the Acer & Ulmus ———— ————— Cambridge Apr. 27 — A snow-storm still reminds one of winter. The buds are struggling to unfold themselves, but make poor work of it. Nature seems to be yawning after her long sleep and trying hard to wake up.