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Article: In search of the Plymouth gentian Coastal plain pond offers rare plants
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- August 11, 1996
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PLYMOUTH -- Misty fog blanketed the pond, and even the deep greens
of the pines were muted by the morning's gray wash. An osprey soared
high overhead, then disappeared, appeared, disappeared again as it
wheeled through the overcast. Lower down, a pair of terns was
patrolling the pond, and their lightning-quick dives for fish were
white slashes on the gray canvas.
"Look up ahead where the shore curves," said Katie Barnicle. She
pointed, and a half-dozen pairs of eyes followed her gesture and saw
what they had come to see -- PINK! A big, bright splash of pink
flowers by the water's edge. A pink no fog could hide. A pink that
here, deep in the Plymouth woods and hard by a kettle pond, could ...