48 The Botanical Gazette. |February, 
vague idea of the mountain if he makes but one ascent. He 
must ascend and reascend; he must dwell upon its lofty 
peaks and view in varying lights its grand proportions; he 
must descend its vast slides filled with decomposed granite 
and immense boulders that appear as though the slightest 
must descend the ‘‘long crooked slide’’ where by a slip he 
might be dashed upon the sharp rocks hundreds of feet below 
or where an incautious step might set in motion an avalanche 
of huge boulders; he must pass down into the ‘‘notch’’ and 
over the ‘*chimney’’—a feat seemingly impossible to the in- 
experienced. The ‘narrows’? must be traversed, where 
there is barely a footing and from whence a jump of more — 
' than two thousand feet may be made upon the one hand ora — 
tumble hardly less great upon the other. The ‘‘northern 
tablelands’? must be visited, and the mountain ‘basin’, 
where exists a small lake of the purest water. This basin 1s _ 
enclosed upon three sides by perpendicular walls of solid 
rock, nearly two thousand feet high. All this must be done — 
and more, ere one can obtain any correct impression of the 
locality cannot iail to be of interest to the student of botany 
and it is our purpose to present in this paper 
notes made during 
Upon a previous visit (in 1873) we made the ascent by the — 
way of the ‘‘eastern slide’, which is, perhaps, the easiest if 
not the best place for the purpose. Around the base of this” 
