74 Tim Flora of th< Adirondacks. 



dows. The Rhododendron Hispidum is found in abundance 

 in tin- high lands, a rare and moat beautiful shrub. iNear 

 tin- village <>f Lewis, opposite the old yellow tavern, I 

 found in 1858, and often >\un- that time the Iris Ockrolewoa, 

 5Tellow Iris, the largest and finest species of Iris native 

 iu this country, a magnificent aquatic plant, now for the 

 first time reported as a native of New York. 



The Scirpus Sylvalicus I found in Crown Point a number 

 of years since, and I believe that it has never been found 

 in the state by another botanist until my friend, Mr Peck 

 of this city, found it in the same region last summer. 



It were vain to attempt in this connection any catalogue 

 of the plants of this section, but before passing to the 

 highest mountain regions, let us collect some of the 

 flowering plants from a single locality; a circle less than 

 an eighth of a mile in diameter, one half of which is occu- 

 pied by a pond of water, the other half by a swamp of 

 sphagnum. 



Among the mountains in the western part of Crown 

 Point lies a little pond not more than forty rods long, in 

 no place more than two or three feet deep. Primal 

 forests surround this little sheet of water, but between 

 the forests and it, lies a belt of sphagnum. If we push 

 through a little pathway, or trail among the alders, we 

 shall find in this little open space, objects of interest enough 

 to en^aire the attention of the botanist for many hours. 

 Rich as is this little Bpol in the rare and beautiful forms of 

 its flora, it is but the representative of many a quiet place 

 hidden among these mountain dales, which nature delights 

 to adorn with some of her most exquisite and unusual pro- 

 ductions. 



First, as we approach the opening, and the alders begin 

 to be replaced by the larch, we discover a shrub two feet 

 high, with evergreen leaves, dark and shiny above, and 

 with long rust-colored fur beneath ; it is the Ledum 



