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seem rare here, but are abundant in southern New 

 York. The odd spires of the double or black spruce 

 are also found among the denizens of this region. 

 From May until late November the swamp brings forth, 

 in their season, arbutus, mountain snowberry vines, 

 St. John's wort, low huckleberry, the evergreen leaves 

 of Gaultheria, prince's pine, creeping evergreens, nu- 

 merous rushes and sedges. Here, too, the goldthread 

 entangles the roots of mosses and trilliums, while the 

 Sundew {Drosera rohmdifolia), creeps along the mossy 

 sides of the wood road, and in the deeper sphagnum 

 about the stream. The rare Large Whorled Pogonia 

 {Pogonia verticillata) , of the Orchid Family, has been 

 collected in this swamp for three seasons. This orchid 

 is rare in New England, save in Massachusetts and 

 Connecticut. It was first found in Vermont near High 

 Bridge and Colchester by Messrs. Bobbins and Oakes, 

 the pioneer botanists, who passed through the State in 

 1829. The delicate emerald green leaves of Clintonia, 

 marsh marigolds, Solomon's seal, Shin-Leaf {Pyrola 

 rotundifolid) , liverwort, wild briar-roses, lambkill, blue 

 lobelias, Labrador tea, yellow loosestrife, blue-fringed 

 gentians, innumerable ferns, the spikes of the Tall- 

 Green Orchis, plants of the Round-Leaved Orchis, the 

 Pink Moccasin-Flower, and rarely the beautiful orchid, 

 Arethusa bidbosa — all of these conspire to make the 

 region a wilderness of beauty. 



On an excursion to Thompson's Brook, June 19th, 

 near Meyers's Sugar-Bush, I collected ferns and iris. 

 As I descended to the hemlocks, near the waterfalls, I 



