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safel}^ on the opposite bank, after frightening many a 

 shy, speckled trout from his hiding-place in this ideal 

 fishing-hole. 



I was now in a small, low-lying glen where foot of 

 man has seldom been. The soil, though much drier 

 than the ground over which I had recently passed, dis- 

 played a honeycombed appearance, showing where the 

 water had oozed away through the rich leaf-mould to 

 seek the flowing stream beyond. 



Whole constellations of star-flowers were here; both 

 the Painted and Crimson or Nodding Trilliums were 

 abundant, asserting themselves and their rights, if size 

 of flowers and leaves may indicate strength, among the 

 tall, rank growth of the Common Brake {Pteris aqui- 

 lina), which frequently rise five feet in height. Close 

 by their long, harsh lobes grew the plicate leaves of the 

 Indian Poke or White Hellebore. Skunk Cabbage 

 (^Spathyemafcetidd), so frequent in the swamps along 

 Bronx River in Greater New York, is rarely seen 

 here, although I find lone specimens now and then in 

 Aurora's Swamp in northern Berkshire, and in this 

 jungle. Lily leaves and Dwarf Cornel peeped out from 

 every shadow. Here I found the red-spotted leaves 

 of Dog's-Tooth Lily {^Erythroniuni AmericanuTu) and 

 Clintonia {Clintonia borealis), as well as the delicate 

 leaves of the False Lily-of-the- Valley ( Unifolium Cana- 

 dense), and several species of Solomon's Seal, while the 

 weird Indian Cucumber {Medeola Virginiand) rose up 

 everywhere beneath the luxuriant ferns. 



Dwarf Cornel, or Bunch Berry, locally known as 



