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The first excursion was to the summit of Bald Knob, 

 about 500 feet above the hotel. On the north side of the 

 rocks up there, Saxifraga leucanthemifolia grew abundantly 

 with Heuchera villosa and tiny plants of Asplenium montanum^ 

 and the sunny slope was carpeted with Viola pedata and its 

 beautiful pansy-like forma bicolor. Both Clmtonias and the 

 slender white Cha7?zceliritcm lutcum were at home just below 

 the summit, and Ilex montana^ grew in close proximity to 

 Ribes rotundifolia. 



We explored the lake and its borders, but with the excep- 

 tion of a few plants of Parnassia asarifolia growing on old 

 logs, and a few mosses in the water, of vegetable life there 

 was none, nor much of animal life either, for the matter of that. 

 According to the agent in charge of the property, the lake 

 has frequently been stocked with fish, the outlet properly 

 wired and protected, but from the day they were put in the 

 water to the present time, never a fish, living or dead, has 

 been seen, which is mysterious, to say the least 



In and around Little Stony Creek, the outlet of Mountain 

 Lake, we saw quantities of Trautvetteria Caroliniensis grow- 

 ing with Veratrum viride, and close by on the edge of the 

 marsh were the dainty white flowers of Oxalis Acetosella and 

 Tiarella cordifolia. 



We collected some old fruit vesstM oi Epiphegus Virginianay 

 diud Conopholis Americana was seen in three localities on the 

 mountain, and also in fruit later at Eggleston's. On the edge 



♦ Hex montana, Torr. & Gray, in A. Gray, Man., Ed. i, 276 (1848), is the 

 name which should be applied to the shrub which in all recent writings is 

 called /. mo7ittcola. Gray (Man., Ed. 2, 264, 1S56). Dr. Gray changed the name 

 in the second edition of the manual, after ascertaining that there was already ^ 



published a Prinos montana^ Svvartz FL Ind. Occ. i., 622 (1797). It was in the 

 second edition, and not the fifth, as is erroneously quoted by Dr. Watson in his 

 Bibliographical Index, and by Professor Trelease, Proc. St. Louis Acad., v., 

 347, that Dr. Gray first proposed to merge Prinos in Ilex, ■ But Prinos monfana 

 is not Ilex montana^ which binoihial was subsequently taken up by Grisebach 

 (Flon Brit. West Ind., 147 [1864]), for Swartz' plant. This is the-^pecies which 

 must receive another name, and several seem to have beeti associated with 



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