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wood lily, with an erect flower, is earlier than the Canada 
e carrion-flow iat herbacea, had changed its fe 
scented flowers for sallisters of rounded berries and the 
winged fruits on the wild yam, Déiescorea, had almost tote 
ae size; while quantities - fly-poi ison, CAO Pe muscae- 
low s, 
eee ie come ine full flowering and was one of the pesos 
plants seen on the summit. 
‘y common plant was _the Mees Shanes 
five 
gone 
and those of horse bale coreopsis, aster, and goldenrod were 
still to come. 
r the summit, I saw a good specimen of the wild cucumber 
tree, Magnolia acuminata, and a small one of the moosewood 
ns 
top of the mountain, well named Bald Knob, was covered with a 
low, dense growth of scrub oak, black eek witch hazel, ange 
beech, chestnut, shadbush, birch, untain ash, alder, bird 
cherry, azalea, hobblebush, blueberry ry; ae berry, ae 
gooseberry, catbrier, and bracken fern, among which Hes barcous 
plants of various kinds ee The average height of this 
