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fanceolatum var. angustisegmentum. On the rocky cliffs 
near Rainbow Falls were quantities of Cryptogramma 
Stelleri, Cystopteris fragilis, Woodsia ilvensis, and a very 
blunt-lobed form of this Woodsia which I have fre- 
quently noticed in mountain habitats. In Mossy 
Cascade, near St. Huberts, was found Asplenium Trich- 
omanes. The only spots in the whole Adirondacks 
where I have chanced to encounter two ferns common 
in other sections of the state, Aspidium marginale and 
Adiantum pedatum, occur in these Keene Valley woods. 
Three days were spent in a camping trip to the sum- 
mit of Mt. Marcy, 5328 feet in altitude. The ascent 
was made by way of the Marcy Brook trail, the descent 
along the picturesque Opalescent River and through 
Avalanche Pass. The characteristic ferns of the dense 
woods of this region are Phegopteris polypodioides,. As- 
pidium spinulosum and its varieties intermedium and 
dilatatum, and Polypodium vulgare. On the bare, rocky 
summit of Marcy, Lycopodium Selago and L. annotinum 
var. pungens are found. At Lake Tear-of-the-Clouds, 
the highest water in the state, Lycopodium inundatum 
grows. Avalanche Pass, with its perpendicular rocky 
sides, is surely a fern paradise. In the crevices of the 
rocks are clumps of Aspidium fragrans, with their with- 
ered masses of dead fronds; Woodsia ilvensis is every- 
where; while occasionally you see the delicate little 
fronds of the very rare Woodsia alpina. 
The peat bogs in the fields close to the Wood farm 
we found interesting with Ophioglossum vulgatum, Botry- 
chium ternatum var. rutaefolium, and the rare orchid, 
Microstylis unifolia. 
Leaving the Wood farm the first of August, we drove 
east, were ferried across Lake Champlain, and made 
for the famous Smugglers Notch, Vermont. Over the 
roughest of roads and steepest of hills, we drove to 
Smugglers Notch Camp. A short hike and a climb 
