Already the pads are much eaten before they are grown, and underneath, on the under side of almost every one, are the eggs of various species of insect, some so minute as to escape detection at first . . .

  P.M.—To Dugan Desert.

  Cornus alternifolia a day or two, up railroad; maybe longer elsewhere. Spergularta rubra by railroad, it having been dug up last year, and so delayed.

  The cuckoo of June 5th has deserted her nest, and I find the fragments of egg-shells in it; probably because I found it . . .