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“ —+——“ hills amid the air apecomiere een 
; Hurl’ to and fro with jaculation dire 
And evidently too to the advantage of ie publinigh Gee: 
for this is several hundred feet the highest, is more steep and 
more easily broken up from its bed, so that its debris has 
evidently gained upon the older rocks, and Sabjectedhsame 
of them to its dominion. 
In this ye the lichens, mosses ‘and fungi, have planted 
themselves thickly upon the bowlders and decaying logs 
where they are secured by the dense foliage of the trees 
from the too: powerful rays of the sun and moistened by 
the vapour of a smail brook which here finds a passage. 
“You there see’ Sticia Se (Ach.) and Jungermannia 
‘the rocks, while the ever 
verdant Pol ‘vulg tr ntly crowns the. top. 
Saiemnvas are i ea y 
others, several Lecanore 
perigoniale, Fever species of Hypnu Dicranum, Ortho- 
irichum, and many other genera on ‘there. On the de- 
caying trees along this valley, you not unirequently may 
see the delicate Boletus versicolor and betulinus;the elezant 
~~ B. cinnabarinus and lucidus, and the useful B. varius, velu- 
‘tinus and ce (Persoon.) Here too may be found 
Aaricus alneus (Pers. dy cone cinerea and Polyporus 
abietinus of Fries ; various Thelephorae; Hydra, Clavariae, 
 Pesize, &e.- ‘And: shereianesin ob the brook has in many 
jlages qe Oovieas of Marchantia. polymorpha and mie ef 
rt extremity of this valley is a pond, in and 
<igrowhth hicks are “many ‘rare and i Silicones phenogamous 
Drosera r lia and longrfolia, Nu- 
and Kalmiana Nymphe Nymphea odorata, Utricularia 
i peti “ “yoke Conte) “stots vertieillatim, - 
or two Charae, Cnieus vensis 
color and ‘mutiouss > Rhynchospora ora glomerata and alba Wa. 
~ jas Canadensis deals Scirpus subterminalis (n. sp. Torrey 
“MSS.) In the outlet to a ew grows the oe ee 
gia frewiatitis of Linnaen 
to return to the’ _ nite. Along the southern and 
central parts of Montague, it is greatly hid by the gneiss and 
mica slate. In the — oe - the town, however. 
Vor, VI.—No. FE. 
