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rocks were found Woodsia [lvensis and a few plants each of Camp- 
tosorus rhizophyllus, Asplenium Trichomanes, and Arabis lyrata. 
Here Nature had been lavish with her paint-brush. Under the 
trees of Cornus florida, whose bright-colored leaves lit up the 
wooded hillside, was an abundance of Solidago bicolar, S. cesia, 
and Lupatorium ageratoides. The fence rows were purple with 
Aster Nove-Anghe. About three hundred yards from the station 
the road turns to the right, through the woods, and up to the top 
of the hill. Along this road the polymorphous Solidago nemoralis 
was very plentiful, as was S. /anceolata and S. latifolia. S. squar- 
rosa was found only occasionally. 
It is to be regretted that we did not take an old road below ‘ie 
present one, for along it in 1889 I found several specimens of So/?- 
dago rupestris, a very rare find for Northeastern Pennsylvania. 
This old road was reserved for the return trip, but at that period 
time, which is no respecter of botanists, was urging us on at a 
lively gait in order to catch the train. There was just one cause 
for regret, and that was when we came to the station for the rare 
Aster concinnus, discovered by Mr. Small and myself in 1890. The 
farmer along whose fence they grew had an idea that «‘ weeds” 
do not improve the appearance of fence-rows, and had cut them 
down. Owing to this only two poor specimens were obtained. 
The lake, a beautiful little sheet of water about two miles long 
and a mile wide, is evidently a relic of the glacial period. Accord- 
ing to the aneroid barometer, it is 880.feet above sea level, and 
480 feet above the river. On the north it is skirted by a low 
mountain ridge, on the west by gently-sloping ground, with indi- 
cations that there was once an outlet on that side, and on the other 
sides by low and often swampy ground. It is a veritable botanical 
Paradise. The chocolate-colored water is full of little peat islands, 
literally swarming with vegetation, while the shores are lined with 
shrubs, and the woods full of interesting plants. A boat was pro- 
cured, and a voyage of discovery begun. Among the first things 
observed were the tiny yellow flowers of Uvricularia gibba rising 
from a very ugly-looking mixture of peat and mud. Masses of _ 
roots of Castalia odorata were floating about, nuclei for the growth 
of future vegetation. A very tempting-looking bush of J/ex vertt- 
cillata, var. padifolia caused us to land and investigate the shore. a 
