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Contributed by New York Botanical Garden, LuEsther T. Mertz Library.
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April 27. 1918. Cold Spring to Millneck & 3
Cold Spring to Cold Spring Harbor
and East Moriches to Millneck.
Red Wing - Black Birds, Mr Chymus'
animal life rare on Long Island
In swamps at Cold Spring Blue &
also White violets! Yellow adder tongue
to Sessile leaved Bellworts in woods.
Myrtle here and in various places
as also Ground Ivy.
On Sandy banks. Viola fimbriata
to Five finger & in grassy road-
sides & farms Viola -
In many places by the Road-sides
& in the woods in flower trailing arbutus
In the swamps & by the Millneck
stream Ill-scented Pulleum and
Marsh marigolds. Wonderfully beautiful
with white & also blue violets.
The Swamp maples still show red.
Wind flowers in perfect bloom.