80 The Flora of the Adirondack*. 



tree to which birds Hock to gather its red fruit, but a 

 little stem six inches high never daring to put forth a 

 blossom and always barren of fruit. Of lesser plants, 

 a few meet us at every step of our progress. The 

 little Oxalis Acetocclla and the Clintonia Borealis have 

 met our eye from the foot of the mountain to its very 

 summit. 



We have found along the path the Solidago Thgrsoides, 

 which has never been reported as a native of this state, but 

 which I found in abundance here in 1859 and at other 

 times since. The Solidago Virga Aurea also finds its only 

 home here. 



My friend, Mr. Peck, in his tour among the mountains 

 last summer, gathered a rich harvest of rare and new 

 plants from the sides of Whiteface and its vicinity. 

 Among them were the Carex Seirpoidni and Qircx Aperta, 

 not before reported ; Carex lloiiijhloiiii from the shores of 

 Lake Placid and Alopecurus Aristulah/s, a species of great 

 rarity, a little way from the lake. Fine specimens of the 

 rare and to this state, but recently known Potamogeion 

 Pradongus he found in the lake, and several species of rush 

 and carex not before reported. 1 



"rin- following arc Borne of the rare mosses of the Adirondack* which 

 have been found by Mr. C. II. Peck, who has recently visited this region 

 under the direction of the Regents of the University. Except as here speci- 

 fied they are doI found elsewhere in this st;itr. and but few of them else- 

 where within the limits of the United States ; 



Sphagnum PylcBsii, Mt. Marcy, Lake Avalanche. 



dpTiagnum Sedoidx, same localities, also Mt. Mclntyre. 



Sphagnum LindenbergH, alideof Whiteface, also in British America. 



Andraa Orasrinervia, Whiteface. 



Din, i a a in Polyearpum, Marcy. 



Dieranum Blytii, Adirondack Pass. 



ZHcranum Elongatum, Marcy and Mclntyre, 



Orthrotrichum GbtusifdUum, .North Elba. 



( irimiiii'i Ovata, Mt, Marcy, Lake Avalanche, 



BUndia Acuta, Keen, Edmonds Point; also on Catskill and White 

 Mountains. 



Pogonatum Arnigenun, Adirondacks. 



