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the shaded talus of cliffs which nearly surround Little Lake. Little 

 Lake is situated approximately a mile south of Hewlett's Gorge, 

 and a mile west of Jamesville. Paine aptly describes it as "a deep 

 depression in the surface, walled in on all sides but one with rocks 

 at least 100 feet high, and one-fourth of a mile across from side to 

 side." * The open side is the eastern, t The plant was formerly 

 very abundant on the talus at the south of the lake, but scarcely a 

 half dozen plants may be found now, owing to the greed of picnick- 

 ers. From thirty to fifty rods to the north of the lake the plant 

 grows thriftily in at least three different places along the sides of 

 two wooded ravines which occur together. 



(3) Green Pond. Continuing his search, Mr. Paine gave at- 

 tention to the other pit-hole lakes of the vicinity, and found Phyllitis 

 growing at Green Pond. White Lake and Green Pond lie near 

 each other, a mile and a half east of Jamesville, at the base of a 

 ledge of limestone from 100 to 200 feet high. This ledge is a con- 

 tinuation eastward of the steep escarpment which forms the south- 

 ern cliff of Rock Gorge, lying about a mile northwest of Little 

 Lake. As stated, it extends eastward, and transecting the north- 

 erly-trending Butternut valley, runs a half dozen miles farther, inci- 

 dentally giving rise, at a given point along its base, to Green Pond. 



Green Pond (also called Scolopendrium Lake) is similar to 

 Little Lake in lying like a sheltered harbor far within the irregular 

 outline of the surrounding cliffs. It is, however, at least a third of 

 a mile broad. The banks are exceedingly rough and strewn with 

 fragments broken from the towering limestone cliffs. % The cliffs 

 have extensive tali, and it is the continuous steep talus of the great 

 U-shaped cliff which forms the shore of the lake. The fern grows 

 pretty well up on the sides, among the fragments of Corniferous 

 limestone, on both sides at the base of the U. The plants from the 

 cleared (eastern) portion have mostly become of small size and 

 winter-kill badly, owing doubtless to the comparatively recent 

 removal of the forest, which occasions a lack of protection in win- 

 ter and summer alike. On the western slope, as yet wooded, the 

 plants grow to good size. 



* Amer. Journ. Sci. & Arts, II. 42: 281. 1866. 



fFor a complete description of this remarkable lake and vicinity, see the 

 article by Prof. E. C. Quereau, entitled Topog. and Hist. Jamesville Lake, N.Y.. 

 111 Bull. Geolog. Soc. Am. 9: 173-182. 1898. 



t See article by the author, Fern Bull. 7:1. 1899. 



