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the village of Pine Plains. The physical features of the township 
are sufficiently varied to give this section certain botanical advan- 
tages not usually possessed by many others. First, there is Stissing 
~ Mountain, which consists of two adjoining peaks, or gradual eleva- 
tions, one of them rising above the plain to the height of nearly a 
thousand feet. On or near its nearly naked summit grow Potentilla 
tridentata, Ait., Betula papyracea, Ait., Prunus pumila, L., etc. The 
mountain, which is about six miles in length, has no connection with 
any other range—being not quite equi-distant from the Taghkanic, 
Catskill and Fishkill ranges, Oar hills, with exception of the moun- 
tain, are mostly limestone —the plain being a sandy loam. There are 
over a thousand acres of untilled marsh land in town, besides quite 
a number of large cold swamps; in the marshes flourish Betula pu- 
mila, L., Blephilia hirsuta, Benth., Andromeda polifulia, L., Myrica 
Gale, L., Menyanthes trifoliata, L., and a number of other plants un- 
“usual for this latitude. All this, with five or six good sized ponds 
and three large creeks flowing through the township—making a sec- 
tion diversified with mountain, plain, hills, valleys, ponds, creeks, 
swamps, and marshes—cannot fail to offer a most inviting field to 
the active botanist. 
I take, I trust, only a pardonable pride in the goodly number of 
Ferns, Solidagos and Potamogetons—my favorite order and two 
favorite genera—which grow here within two and a half miles of 
the village. Of Solidagos I have already detected, within the above 
small cireuit, twenty different species, and thirty-three species of 
Ferns, besides three or four varieties of the latter. In a future arti- 
cle, I shall give their names in full; ; : 
“Clematis verticillaris, DC.; Frequent ; common in the ravines of 
Stissing Mt. 
Anemone cylindrica, Gray ; rare. roe 
ee acutiloba, DC.; rare ; sparingly on back slope of Stissing 
Mt. 
Ranunculus multifidus, Pursh.—not common; in streams on 
 Stissing Mt. 
Coptis trifolia, Salisb. ; common. 
Caulophyllum thalictroides, Michx. ; rather common; abundant 
along base of Mt. Ararat, with Solea concolor, Ging. 
Podophyllum peltatum, L., not rare. 
Sarracenia purpurea, L., quite common. — 
Corydalis aurea, Willd., frequent on Stissing Mt. 
Fumaria officinalis, L., eseaped from gardens, s 
Dentaria maxima, Nutt., not common; rich soil, in deep ravines 
of mountain.—D. diphylla, L., and D. laciniata, Mubl., both very 
common, : ae: 
Arabis hirsuta, Scop., A. levigata, DC., and A. Canadensis, L., are 
all common on Stissing Mt. and frequent on wooded hills. 
Lepidium campestre, L., rare. 
Solea concolor, Ging, abundant on slope of Mt. Ararat. 
Viola Selkirkii, Goldie, near or on Mt. Ararat, M. E. V. (?) 
Hypericum ellipticam, Hook., in Wappinger’s Marsh. | : 
Silene noctiflora, L., frequent along fences and roadsides. 8. in- 
-flata, Smith, becoming common along our two railroad lines. 
