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fragrance. In this region we found the yew with its beau- 

 tiful coral cups, and became acquainted with the stately 

 teasel, the giant h^^ssop with flower-heads four inches 

 long. On the rocks back of the house the celandine ran 

 riot and the lovely white violets w^ere blooming all around. 

 The hawkweed brightened the upland slopes and the bee 

 balm was quite frec^uent and of a beautiful glowing red. 

 New to me w^ere the plants of Hepatica acutiloha, Clin- 

 tonia borealis and Calla palustris. The season's list of 

 orchids was increased by the finding of Hahenaria psyco- 

 des, Microstylis^ also new, and the larger Goodyera or 

 rattle- snake orchid. The flower-spike looked much like the 

 Spiranthes and I was about to pass it by when, stooping 

 to look at something else, the beautiful mottled leaf 

 caught my eye. The smaller cotton grass also grew^ in 

 one of the boggy places. It seemed strange that never 

 having found this plant before, mountain and sea should 

 this year combine in showing me two varieties of it. 



The above are but a few of the flowering plants found. 

 At the sea-shore the poison ivy v^^as everywhere apparent, 

 but in the mountains not a trace of it was seen. The 

 w^hortleberries on the coast grev^ on very high bushes, 

 those on the mountain top on branches two inches in 

 height. Now for the ferns. The following, new to me, so 

 far as their native haunts are concerned, Ophioglossum 

 vulgatum (adder's tongue) v^e found in w^et meadov^s 

 most of the fruit spikes had, alas, been guillotined — again 

 by the mower, and the leaf looked much like that of the 

 pogoina, but more yellow. Not far from their haunts 

 were Botrychium lanceolatum, B. matricarifolium and B. 

 simplex, but not B. lunaria. Farther on in the woods 

 the splendid ostrich fern, five feet high, met our view. 

 Among its handsome green feathers we found the dark 

 fruited spikes. All the country people call them "brakes." 

 In a ravine at High Mount on a limestone cliff, worn by 

 glaciers and at least eighty feet high, we found, after an 

 arduous climb, Pellsea gracilis. A single rock in another 

 part oi the ravine bore a few plants of the Avalking fern, 



