98 Rhodora [Mav 
was plainly visible to the naked eye, while the White and the Green 
Mountains and in fact all elevations within a hundred miles stood up 
in fine relief. 
When the fog had thus cleared and I was able to get a general idea 
of the mountain, I was disappointed to see so little good botanizing 
territory. I had expected much from a mountain 500 feet higher than 
Mansfield and 1,000 feet above Willoughby, but I found two essentials 
for a luxuriant growth of alpine plants, namely water and cliffs, largely 
wanting here. Moosilauke has two peaks over a mile apart, and both 
these summits as well as the ridge connecting them are free from trees. 
The highest peak, which was first explored, was covered with great 
masses of Vaccinium Vitis- Idaea, Arenaria Groenlandica, and Juncus 
trifidus. I saw some Vaccinium uliginosum and by the roadside just 
before reaching the hotel a single patch of V. caespitosum. Look as 
one would, no cliffs were to be seen and only one small bog off in the 
woods to the northwest. 
At the hotel I was told of a ravine “ Jobilldunk," and on visiting it 
found the best botanizing region of the mountain. I was surprised to 
find here Arnica Chamissonis, although in a depauperate form, also 
Viola palustris, Scirpus caespitosum, Agrostis scabra montana, and 
Lycopodium Selago. In the bog was Empetrum nigrum but a great 
* slide " on the west side of the mountain yielded nothing of interest. 
The following plants collected about the peak have been deposited 
in the Jesup Herbarium of Dartmouth College, those marked with an 
asterisk being additions to Professor Jesup's Hanover Catalogue : 
* Viola palustris, L. 
Arenaria Groenlandica, Spreng. 
* Amelanchier oligocarpa, P oem. 
* Pyrus sambucifolia, Cham. & Schlecht. 
* Arnica Chamissonis, Less. 
* Prenanthes trifoliata, Cass. 
* Vaccinium caespitosum, Michx. 
d uliginosum, L. 
eu Vitis-Idaea, L. 
Solidago macrophylla, Pursh. 
Alnus viridis, DC. 
Juncus trifidus, L. 
* Scirpus caespitosus, L. 
Agrostis scabra, Willd. 
