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to ring the chimes that call the spirits to their moonlight revelry, 
“fairy-bells;” and in others, ravishing beds of the wax like 
_ Moneses wniflora, Gr., loaded the air with fragrance. Osmorrhiza 
brevistylis, DC., Pyrola chlorantha, Swz., Epiphegus Virginiana, 
- Bart., Habenaria orbiculata, Torr., Listera cordata, R. Br. and 
convallarioides, Hook., Corallorhiza innata, R. Br. and the com- 
mon form of multiflora, Nutt., Eleocharis obtusa, Schultes, Carex 
rosea, Schk., and Cystopteris fragilis, Bernh., were also collected 
and fully compensated us for our tiresome climb over the roug 
sides of the mountain. 
Our next stop was at a little wayside station, Kingston, to 
examine the bad lands lying along this part of the railway. The 
sand hills, covered with the withered flowers and half-ripened 
fruit of Hudsonia ericoides, L., where a week before they had 
