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are everywhere developing many deep and shaded coves, which for 

 the trained collector are a thing of beauty and a joy forever. 



The mountain streams of north Alabama flow through a region as 

 attractive to the tourist a-* it is fascinating to the collector. Who 

 knows what knowledge lies buried in the dashing waters of Hurricane 

 Creek, or waits some intrepid wader in the numerous shoals of Flint 

 and Paint Rock rivers? 



Monte Sano is already a classic collecting ground. Years ago it 

 was made famous by its subcarboniferous fossils, and many a botanist 

 lias climbed with eagerness its precipitous slopes. Here the curious 

 C III Mam wood (the Great American Smoke Tree) Cotinus cotiiioides 

 (Nutt.) Britton, whose type locality is the Grand River, Arkansas, 

 finds a congenial home. 1 It is not improbable that it was rediscov- 

 ered by Buckley on this very mountain. 



But to the conchologist Monte Sano is chiefly interesting as the 

 type locality of three land shells, all of which were introduced to 

 science by that indefatigable naturalist, Professor Herbert H. Smith, 

 whose versatility of rnind, keenness of vision, and scientific caution 

 universally commend him. 



Carycltium nnnndes Clapp,* is one of the smallest, if not the small- 

 est, of all land shells. It prefers the damp woods, hiding between 

 half-decayed leaves in sheltered situations, near the mountain top. 

 Vitrea lewi&inna Clapp, 8 is slill to be considered one of our rarest 

 shells. The yellow animal is clearly visible through the thin white 

 shell, and when crawling on the under surface of the dull-colored 

 rocks, which it seems to prefer, makes a most pleasing picture. 

 Polyyyra sinitlrii Clapp,* has a very evident fondness for mud and 

 clay. Even when it shows itself on some damp day in the crevices 

 of an old wall, or on a pile of rocks, its hirsute epidermis betrays its 

 domicile, and often, under logs, it is found partially buried or 

 " balled " in clay. When cleaned up, however, by gently brushing 

 under tepid water, a method which preserves the luiirs (and for 



'Mohr, Plant Life of Alabama, pp. 34, 64, COO, and Plate VI. See also 

 Gattiiijjer, Flora of Tennesseo, p. 114, where for "Limestone County,'' read 

 "Madison County " 



'NAUTILUS, Vol. XIX, p. 91. 

 'NAUTILUS, Vol XXI, pp. 120. 130. 

 *NAUTILUS, Vol. XIX, pp. 73, 74. 



