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color to a black-brown—I was pleased to find for the first time in 
my life a magnificent specimen of the Virginia moonwort ( Boéry- 
 chium Virginicum), which measured over two feet from the tip of 
its elongated fertile frond to the ground. In vain I searched for 
more; it was a ‘‘solitaire’’ as far as my observation led me. On 
the sunny banks of the rill were the large mitre-wort ( 7e//ima 
grandiflora), and the prickly gooseberry (Aides dacustre var. par- 
vulum), one of the handsomest of the genus, with its glossy green 
leaves and its black fruit. Close at hand rose the gigantic umbel 
known as the cow-parsnip ( Heracleum lanatum ), then just in flower, 
while cowering at its feet were the delicate plants Cardamine oligo- 
sperma, and Stellaria crispa. The St. John’s-wort ( /2ypertcum 
Scouleri) was just preparing to open its yellow clusters. The alum- 
root (Heuchera micrantha) and the snow-berry (Symphoricarpos 
racemosus), were in full flower everywhere, while many mosses, 
such as Hypnum, Dicranum, Neckera, Mnium, Dichelyma, Raco- 
mitrium and Grimmia, covered trees and ground. I soon came out 
of the dense, rich forests on to a gravel-bar of one of the arms of 
the river, and here an entirely different flora awaited me. First was 
the delicate, red-stemmed Polygonum (P. minimum), the four- 
-leaved Galium (G. Kaméschaticum), and the gorgeous plumes of 
the painted-cup or Indian pink ( Caséilleta parviflora). The two 
_rock-cresses (Aradis hirsuta) and (A. perfofoliata) were abundant, 
as were the winter-cress (Barbarea vulgaris), the various-leaved 
Gilia (G. heterophylla) and the graceful Gilia(G. gracilis). The 
beautiful Penstemon (P. diffusus) fairly covered the bar with its 
royal purple, while, as if to vie with royalty, flamed out the red 
flowers of the columbine (Aguilegia formosa). Mingling with 
these their more modest coloring were the fruit and flowers of the 
wild strawberry (fragaria Virginiana var. Ilinoensis), the pink 
blossoms of the delicate creeping spring beauty (Claytonia parvi- 
folia), the golden yellow flowers and white stems of the ‘‘ gold and 
silver’? (Evriophyllum cespitosum), probably the most variable plant 
on this coast, the greenish-white flowers of Phacelta circinata, and 
~ the minute blue flowers of the little ‘‘innocence”’ (Collinsta parve- 
flora). On the deciduous trees near by, and in fact along the whole 
trail so far, though nowhere else in such profusion, were festoons 
‘composed of the two pretty mosses Neckera Douglasti and N. 
Menziesii. Some of these draperies were three or four feet long, 
