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I ran out to the skin on terrain in two hours, my first bath on this trip.
In the afternoon Mr. White and I studied the geology about Kelly's Cove but spent most of the time collecting scent plants. Drupas are common in the region beginning at sea level and continuing into the higher land. In these places a variety of plants can be found, among them two pretty orchids. Antithos orchid, funnel lily, the rattlesnake plantain is found in other places while a fourth kind I found in shady place beside a brook. The variety of plants collected this afternoon must be near fifty species.
In one place on Carminiflorum strata occur what Mr. White considers a typical moore, moss abundant, the ground free of small hillocks many of which are covered by heaths the Ralania, one of the Rhodoclydums.
The entire flora hereabouts betrays a northern region in the abundance of mosses and ferns, dwarfed conifers and in the absence of all large trees. Some of the conifer may be 18 to 24 inches in diameter but the feet.