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of the Hemlock woods was found the gloomy-looking, ill- 

 scented Trillium erecUim and the high-climbing curious 

 ^ J- Aristolockia Stpho, 



The hillside above the creek was a bewildering mass of 

 bright flowers, A great patch of the brilliant Castilleia 

 coccinea grew in the hottest, dryest slope among the bushes. 

 Rhododendron calendulaceum was abundant, taller, and. if 

 possible, even more startling in color than any seen before, 

 and near by grew the rose-colored, fragrant Rhododendron 

 canescenSy"^ a striking contrast to its more brilliant neighbor. 

 Trillium grandifloruni was conspicuous for its large showy 

 white or pink petals. Trillinm erythrocarpon was past its 

 prime, but we were fortunate enough to find a few plants that 

 \ still showed their delicately veined flowers. Disportimlayiugi- 



nosum was in fruit, and Uviilaria puberula common on the 



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hillside. 



Violets were plentiful everywhere. Two yellow ones, 

 Viola pubescens and Viola hastata^ were still flowering, and 

 in shady nooks the large, shiny leaves of Viola rotundifolia 

 were conspicuous, but of the latter we had to content our- 

 selves with fine fruiting specimens only. A big bed of Viola 

 Canadensis, a foot tall and very fragrant, grew around a tiny 

 spring on the edge of the path, and the meadow in front of 

 the house was covered with the more common species. 



Growing in a little brook near the head of that same 

 meadow were the tall plants of Saxifraga micranthifolia^ 

 and all through the woods Zizia Bebbii t was plentiful. 



^Rhododendron canescens (Michx.), Porter (BXTLLETIN, xvi., 220). Holding 

 its characters very well, the flowers with the delicious fragrance of those 

 observed on the Pocono Plateau of Pennsylvania, and evidently a mountain 

 } plant. No R. nudijlorum was observed during the trip, and this is as evidently 



a low-ground species. I have collected 'j?. cati^scens during the past season 

 about High Point In the Shawangunk Mountains, both in northwestern New 



Jersey and southern New York N. L- B. 



t ZIZIA BEBBII (Coult. & Rose). (Z. aurea, var. Bebbii, Coult. & Rose, 

 Bot. Gaz,^ xii-, 138.) This plant is very abundant all over Salt Pond 

 Mountain, apparently to the exclusion of. Z. aurea. The longf rayss of its 

 umbels and small, rather narrow leaves appeared to be perfectly constant, 

 and mark it as a distinct species. — N. L. B. 



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