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of Phegopteris Dryopteris, P. polypodioides, and Aspidium spin- 
ulosum, var. intermedium, while everywhere was the common 
Polypodium vulgare. Our most interesting finds, however, 
among the ferns, were growing in the wet crevices of the cliffs, 
carefully hidden by the overhanging rock and sheltered by the 
trees. These were Pellwa gracilis and Woodsia glabella. We 
found both of these ferns afterwards in other localities, but no- 
where in such abundance as here. The little Pellea had hidden 
its delicate rootstocks so deep down between the narrow chinks 
that it was difficult to procure full specimens. With care, how- 
ever, we succeeded in procuring all we wanted. We found essen- 
tially the same flora on these cliffs as on the Willoughby ones, 
though the various species seemed to differ in relative abundance. 
We added to our collection here Draba arabisans, Impatiens pal- 
lida, Trisetum subspicatum, var. molle, and Microstylis mono- 
phyllos. M. ophioglossoides we found afterwards in abundance 
on the dry sunny hillside near the hotel. This latter plant I 
have often found in Shelburne, N. H., and always in similar lo- 
cations. The “ostrich-fern,” Onoclea Struthiopteris, was growing 
rank by a running brook, while the little Equisetum scirpoides 
was in full fruit, covering the wet turf by the edge of the water. 
We reached home, this day, in time for dinner, but found plenty 
- to do during the rest of the afternoon in laying away our plants. 
One day we made an expedition over Willoughby Mt., 
and we were well rewarded with magnificent views and full 
presses. Here again the ferns were everywhere. It is not so 
much of their variety that I speak, though we counted thirty dif- 
ferent kinds, as of their omnipresence. They greeted the eye at 
every step from the coarse Pteris aquilina by the roadside, to the 
graceful Cystopteris bulbifera in the damp woods. I was struck 
with the strong, sweet fragrance of the latter. I have collected 
Aspidium fragrans in abundance in Shelburne and Gorham, N. 
H., but its fragrance did not compare with the delicious odor of 
the “bladder fern.” Aspidium Goldianum was abundant near 
the foot and on the sammit of the mountain, but it was difficult , 
to find perfect fronds owing, as it appeared, to the attacks of some 
insect. Half way up the mountain, which is about 2,500 ft. above 
the level of the lake, is a bold rock projecting over the cliff be- 
j It is called 
