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land on an adjoining farm yielded me thirty species. Although 
the two common species of Woodsia were near at hand, Woodsza 
glabella was still eluding my search. I sent a friend to the summit 
of Jay Peak in a fruitless quest for it. Finally, on September Ist, 
I joined Mr. Congdon at its old station on Willoughby Mountain 
and made myself familiar with its exquisite form. 
During the first two years of my collecting in earnest, 1874 
and 1875, several visits were made to Camel’s Hump, the peak 
most accessible to me. In this way some time was lost, because 
its subalpine area is limited, and consequently the number of rare 
plants to be found there is small. Yet, with such dogged persist- 
ence as sometimes prevents my making good progress, my last 
visit to that point was not made till the 2oth of June, 1876. On 
that day I clambered, I believe, over every shelf of its great south- 
ern precipice and peered into every fissure amongst the rocks. 
At last, as I was climbing up to the apex over the southeastern 
buttress, my perilous toil was rewarded by the discovery not only 
of Woodsia glabella, but of Aspidium fragrans Swartz. There 
were only a few depauperate specimens of each which had not 
yet succumbed to the adverse conditions of their dry and exposed 
situation. 
Five days previously, on the 15th of June, 1876, I had made 
my first visit to Mount Mansfield, and had recognized its vastly 
more extensive field, more alpine in character and admirably 
varied, so I never again climbed the Camel’s Hump. On this first 
visit to Mount Mansfield my work was restricted to the crest of 
the great mountain. About the cool and shaded cliffs in front of 
the Summit House were then first brought to my view Aspidium 
Jragrans Swartz and Asplenium viride Hudson, for I was still on 
my fern hunt. The finding of the former added a species to the 
Vermont catalogue; the latter was an addition to the flora of the 
United States. Such little discoveries gave joy to the young col- 
lector. The north peak yielded me on this visit two or three 
phaenogams to add to the list of Vermont plants Vaccinium caes- 
pitosum Michx., Polygonum viviparum L., Prenanthes Boottii Gray, 
though the last too mentioned must have been met with pre- 
viously on Camel’s Hump. 
The next extended trip of this busy summer of 1876 was to 
