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By 8 o’clock we had successfully descended this grade, 
and there, only a few feet below us rushed and leaped the 
Merced River. At this pomt I found another specimen 
of. the silver back, Gymnogramma, and also Cheilanthes 
gracillima and C. Fendleri. Pellaea ornithopus was ae 
abundant. 
By noon we had reached our final destination and bal 
pitched camp. On the following morning we took the 
trail for Glacier Point. The so-called “long trail” 
being 14 miles in length, most of the tourists ride mules 
or horses, but I had had experience that way and I de- 
cided I wanted to hurry at one time and stop at another, 
and according to my experience the former, at least, was — 
not possible with a mountain mule. Taking what is oe, 
_ known as the “ledge trail’’ to the foot of Vernal Falls, : 
I found Polystichum munitum growing very abundantly. oS 
In a secluded corner, where the spray from the falls 
furnished plenty of water, was a beautiful grotto filled ae 
with Adiantum pedatum. Prof. Hall, in his admirable — 
little book, Flora of the Yosemite, says that thisfernonce 
was the most common of any in the valley, but the ge oe 
- ing tourists so uprooted the plants that they 
found only in a few places well out of the reach ¢ 
easily” wearied pleasure seeker. I am 
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