io8 BOTANICAL GAZETTE. 



Hibiscus Moscheutos, L., occurs here, the only known locality 

 in Western Michigan. It also occurs near the head of the Lake in 

 Indiana (E. J. Hill), and at Put-in-Bay, Lake Erie (Wheeler & 

 Smith). It probably follows near the lower Great Lakes gener- 

 ally. 



Hypericum pyramidatum, Ait., occurs but is very rare. Its 

 range seems to be north. 



Other lists of Michigan Lake Shore plants were published in 

 the Gazette for July and August, 1880, and from Rev. E. J. Hill 

 in Sept. 1881.— L. H. Bailey, Jr. 



Notes from Mount LaFayette, N. H.— I have been spending the 

 summer in Franconia,N. H. While there I collected extensively both 

 in the valley and the mountains. Moreover, I undertook to keep a 

 list of all plants which I recognized in passing over the roads, 

 either on foot or when driving. I am now tabulating results and 

 find them quite interesting, as much for the conspicuous deficiencies 

 in certain common genera, as in the presence of unusual species. 



I spent one day on Mount LaFayette, something over 5,000 

 feet in altitude, and collected many al pines in the short 

 time allowed on the summit. It may interest those 

 who live in lowlands to read the names even of these fascin- 

 ating boreal species. 1 did not pay much attention to the plants 

 of the lower part of the mountain, except to note their change of 

 fo.m as I ascended. Solidago ihyrsoidea, E. Meyer, was in its 

 glory, and I think as handsome as the sea-side S. sempervirens, L. 

 It grew several feet in height, up to an altitude of over 4,000 feet, 

 intruding even into the peculiar dwarf forest of that region. 'Here 

 I began to 'find Vaccinium Vitis-Idcea, L., in fruit ( Aug. 10th). 

 Chiogenes hispid ula, Torr. & Gr., was very abundant, also fruit- 

 ing.' 



After leaving the dwarf forest the path became very rough 

 with loose, jagged stones, and there were no trees except the flat 

 and spreading Salix Cutleri, Tuck. Here I began to find the pecu- 

 liar alpine sedges, Carex rigida, Good., etc.; Poet laxa, Haenke, 

 Hierochloa borealis Roem. & Scb., and Aim atropurpurea, Wahl. 

 The most conspicuous flower by all odds was the tufted and showy 

 Arenaria Greenland ica, Fenzl., which bears here the curious local 

 name of " mountain daisy. 1 ' An unfortunate misnomer! I found 

 large bunches of Diapensia Lapponica, L., in fruit, but missed my 

 old friends Cassiope hypnoides, Don., and Phyllodoce taxifolia, Salisb., 

 so charming on Mt. Washington. The pretty Loiseleuria pro- 

 cumbens, Desv., was in fruit. I had the good fortune to find Geuin 

 radiation, Michx , var. Peckii, Gr., in splendid shape and very 

 abundant, as was also the dwarf golden-rod, Solidago Virga-aurea, 

 L., var. a/pina, Bigel. I collected large quantities of this and of 



