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The summit of the mountain, running east and west, consists 
of masses of granite rock, with some grass, a few stunted red 
stone. The gen 
colder than at Bedford and the plants on Bald Knob are much 
more dwarfed in consequence. 
All the species of fungi seen were collected, but it was too late 
in the season to find more than a smal! percentage of ee fleshy 
kinds. The weather was no colder than in New York, but the 
season was earlier and the fungi had nearly alli pcan n 
the open fields I found Bovista ied end a small ovis acces of 
Clitocybe. On the summit, 4 
occurred on dead birch and Hydnum caput-ursi on decaying 
trunks of oak. The sulfur-colored polypore was common in the 
