238 NICHOLS: THE VEGETATION OF CONNECTICUT 
rock face or maintain a foothold in crevices, but higher up the 
sides are usually forested. 
There are, of course, all sorts‘and sizes of ravines. In the 
remarks on the nature of ravine vegetation which follow, the 
Fic. 2. Precipitous rocky slopes along stream in Sage's Ravine, Salisbury: 
_The cliffs i in the foreground are covered with mosses and liverworts. 
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f writer has in mind a number of unusually good examples, such as 
Sage’s Ravine and the Wolf Den in ©alisbury, the Glen along 
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| Spruce Brook at Beacon_ Falls, Wintergreen Falls ravine in 
