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rare alpine ferns; no Artemisia Canadensis, Arenaria hirta [A. verna, 
var. propinqua], Hedysarum or Astragalus. However this deficiency 
was atoned for by the bright yellow Arnica Chamissonis [A. mollis], 
strongly resembling a dwarf sunflower; Oxyria digyna, whose very 
looks seemed to say: ‘a near relative of our sorrel’; Gnaphalium 
supinum, which one could easily mistake for our common G. uligi- 
nosum; Phleum alpinum that looks just like dwarfed timothy; Salix 
argyrocarpa in fine fruit, and a form called a hybrid between this and 
S. phylicifolia. Besides these more striking forms, we also collected 
here Veronica alpina, Sibbaldia procumbens, Loiseleuria procumbens, 
Epilobium alpinum, and Geum radiatum [G. Peckii}.” * 
Later, at a meeting of the Torrey Botanical Club, Dr. Grout con- 
trasted the flora of the Smuggler’s Notch region of Mt. Mansfield; 
where “are found Dryopteris [Aspidium] fragrans, Woodsia glabella 
and W. alpina, Pellaea gracilis [Cryptogramma Stelleri], Polystichum 
Braunii, Asplenium viride, Blephariglottis grandiflora [Habenaria 
fimbriata], Saxifraga oppositifolia, S. Aizoön, and S. autumnalis 
[S. aizoides], Astragalus Jesupi LA. Blakei], Hedysarum Americanum 
[H . boreale], Draba incana [D. stylaris], Arenaria verna [var. propinqua], 
Pyrola minor, Gentiana acuta [G. Amarella, var. acuta), Castilleja 
acuminata [C. pallida, var. septentrionalis], Erigeron hyssopifolius, 
Solidago Virgaurea, vars. and that choicest of beauties and wonders, 
the insect-eating Pinguicula vulgaris” ;? with that of the summit-ledges, 
where are found “ Polygonum viviparum, Comandra livida, Viburnum 
pauciflorum, Salix Uva-ursi, Vaccinium caespitosum, V. uliginosum, 
Vitis-Idaea, Nabalus [Prenanthes] Boottii and Diapensia”;? and in 
the abstract of this address, as published, the concluding paragraph 
reads: “A comparison of the flora of this region and that of Mt. 
Washington, brings out the fact that here are several northern plants 
not found at the loftier elevation of the Mt. Washington region, 
although the conditions there are more severely alpine and supposedly 
more favorable. None of the saxifrages mentioned above can be 
found in the White Mountain region, but another alpine species, S. 
rivularis, occurs there. ‘This is only one of several cases hard to 
account for, on a theory of a residual flora, as the regions are so near 
to each other and the conditions are so similar." ? 
1 A, J. Grout, Plant World, ii. 116 (1899). 
2 A. J. Grout, as reported by N. L. Britton, Torreya, ii. 47 (1902). 
