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thizan parvifloriun in bud, and some astonishingly large and 



beautiful flowers o{ Aqznlegia Canadensis. Asartmi arifoliiim 



was flowering below the summit near a little spring, and the 



ill ^ top of a group of huge boulders called The Needles was 



covered with the pretty Paronychia argyrocoma. 



We collected some fine fruiting specimens of Clematis 

 verticillata, and also found the fruit of many plants seen in 



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flower ten days earlier on Salt Pond Mountain, and at noon 

 we walked down to the stable, where we sat in the hay and 

 put our plants into press. 



Buchanan was reached on the return trip in time to 

 collect our hand-luggage (which by that time, counting bags, 

 botany boxes, plant presses, bundles of roots tied up in red 

 bandannas, etc., for a party oi seven, amounted to twenty-two 

 pieces), and catch the Shenandoah Valley train that evening. 



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The next stop was at Luray, where the caves were visited, 

 g| and we took a drive across the valley, but beyond the plants 



already mentioned as found there, we did not see anything 

 very remarkable. Our steps were then turned homewards, 

 and New York was reached at noon on June lOth. We had 

 been away fifteen days and collected about 1,000 specimens, 

 representing 71 orders, 195 genera and 215 species, as 

 enumerated in the following list. A delightful trip, and one 

 which I am sure we all hope may be repeated. 



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