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Along the top of one of the ridges we collected the flowers 



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of Hicoria alba and Hicoria viininia, and saw ^ome splendid 

 shrubs of Cratcegns coccinea in full bloom. In the woods ^ 

 below the ridge Cypripediiim pubescens and Pogonia verti- 

 cillata were collected, but the latter was scarce. 



Early on the 3d of June we drove to the Cascades of 

 Little Stony Creek, five miles away, along a beautiful wood 



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road, where the flora was practically the same as around 

 Mountain Lake, and our destination was reached without 

 any more exciting incidents than occasionally having to 

 alight and join in clearing the road of fallen trees and 

 decayed logs. The last mile was on foot over a rough trail, 

 through the deep woods along the foaming water. On a 

 tall cliff we found some unusually large fronds of Aspleniwn 

 montamon, and on the edge of the Hemlock woods both 

 Asarum Caiiadense and Asariun Virginiciim. We lunched 

 on a big rock in the centre of the stream below the very 

 pretty falls, collected some ferns and Corniis altcrnifolia, 

 returned to the wagons and drove down over a fearfully 

 rough road to Eggleston's, which we reached late in the 

 afternoon, much the worse for wear. The most important 

 plants found on the return trip were Phlox ovata and three 

 Saitellarias, S. saxatilis, S. serrata and 5. nervosa. 



The hotel at Eggleston*s, a dreary rambling old Colonial 

 structure, is the remains of what once must have been a fine 

 Virginia mansion with farm-buildings and negro-quarters 

 attached, all in a sadly dilapidated condition. 



It was too late to do any botanizing that day, and wc had 

 to content ourselves with a hasty scramble over the rocks on 

 the opposite side of the river, where we found Draba ramosis- 

 stmay Anemone acuia, the fruit of Hettchera villosa, and on 

 the river-bank wx collected Barbarea vulgaris, var. arcuata 

 and Ox alls strict a !^ 



* Oxalis stricta^ L. ((9. corniadata. var. stricta^ Savi). In my view this is 

 better regarded as a species than as a variety of the tropical O, corniadata, 

 which is only known in the United States from the Gulf region, the lower Mis- 

 sissippi Valley and the southwest, while 0. strida extends northward far into 



