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(Chrysanthemum parthenium) Waste ground in town.
Some flowers still.
Sep 15. I pm. In afternoon went of Water tower and on
across the plains to Great Pond.
Pinus strobus - a single tree of three
trunks united into one near the base about
30 ft high among the pitch pines perhaps a
half mile N. of the watertower. No indication
of the ground ever having been disturbed
any more than by cultivation. The locality
was an extensive tract hundreds of acres in
extent of pines & scrub oak & arboreal oaks.
Not far away, however, were several
scatins less 6-20 ft tall, of
(Pinus sylvestris) the largest bearing a few
small cones.
Panicum ashei, Dry pasture through
out scrub. N. of the town.
(Perobolus vacciniiflorus) dry clayey
depression which had earlier been wet, in field
N. of the town.