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the Willoughby region for the purpose of gathering in quantity 
the boreal plants known there. I wason the mountain on the 4th 
of August, and examined the entire length of the cliffs, climbing 
upon all their accessible shelves. Among the specimens of 
Woedsia glabella brought away were a few which I judged to be- 
long to a different species. Mr. Frost, to whom they were first 
submitted, pronounced them Woodsia glabella. Not satisfied with 
his report, I showed them to Dr. Gray. By him I was advised to 
send them to Prof. Eaton, because, as he said, Woodsia is a criti- 
cal genus. Prof. Eaton assured me that I had Woodsia hyperborea 
R. Br.—another addition to the flora of the United States. 
On the 22d of August I was back upon Mt. Mansfield with 
my friend, Dr. Varney, thinking and inquiring chiefly about the 
cliffs at Smuggler’s Notch, which I could see in part from certain 
points of thesummit. From the great cliffs of Willoughby Moun- 
tain I had learned the value from a botanist’s point of view of 
such situations, and I was eager to see if these exposed ledges 
would not yield me something of interest. My expectations were 
not high, however, because I knew that two noted botanists had 
been in the Notch, Pursh and Frost. The latter had told me of 
cartloads of Aspidium aculeatum Swartz, var. Brauni Koch, to 
be found there; but he had said nothing of any other rare plants 
nor of cliffs. Early on the morning of the 23d my friend and I 
set out for the Notch. From a point on the Stowe road a little be- 
low the Summit House we descended the mountain side through 
the trackless forest. As the masses of broken rock covering the 
slope were half hidden beneath the shrubs and mosses, the first 
half of our descent was not without its perils. We entered the 
highway some distance below the Notch House and followed the 
trail through the length of the Notch, turning aside here and 
there to inspect the bases of the cliffs or to follow up the side gul- 
lies for a short distance. It was but a hasty survey, byt it yielded 
me many surprises and showed me that here lay still unexplored 
the best botanizing ground in Vermont. I was prepared to take 
scarcely a sample of all the plants met with and time was lacking 
to do so. It was the middle of the afternoon when we turned 
away from the Notch and set out to climb back to the summit by 
the brook which descends from the south end of the Lake of the 
