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Small snapdragon, how long ? Examined a kingfisher's nest, — though tliere is a slight doubt if I found the spot. It was formed singu- larly like that of the bank swallow, i. e. flat-elliptical, thus: ^ ' ^^ some eight inches, as I remember, in the ^^— -^ largest diameter, and located just like a swallow's, in a sand-bank, some twenty jnches below the surface. Could feel nothing in it, but it may have been removed. Have an egg from this. Walked into the Great Meadows from the angle on the west ...side of the Holt, in order to see what were the prevailing sedges, etc. On the dry and hard bank by the river, grows June- grass, etc., Carex scoparia, stellvlatay strida, and Bux- Digitized by Google 1859] A SEA OF PIPES 205 haumii; in the wet parts, pipes two and a half feet high, C lanuginosa^ C. buUata (?), [C] moniley Eleo- charts pahistris, Panicum virgatum * (a little just b^ns to show itself), and Olyceria fluitans here and there and out. There was a noble sea of pipes, — you may say pipes exclusively, — a rich dark green, quite distinct from the rest of the meadow and visible afar, a broad, stream of this valuable grass growing densely, two and a half feet high in water.
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