298 SEMI-CENTENNIAL OF TORREY BOTANICAL CLUB 
with woodland, weeds and foreign plants generally are not 
plentiful. However, two of these are especially abundant. 
One is Echium vulgare, commonly known аз blueweed ог 
viper's bugloss. Its bright blue flowers were conspicuous 
all along the roadside from Phoenicia to Woodland. The other 
plant referred to is Origanum vulgare or wild marjoram, also 
a native of Europe. It grows in great abundance in almost all 
the cleared or waste land about Woodland, often so plentiful as 
to exclude other plant life. As it grew everywhere about the 
hotel, its purple bracts, conspicuous blossoms and strong mint odor 
brought forth many inquiries concerning it. 
It is always interesting to note the succession of plants and 
trees as one ascends a mountain. This we especially observed in 
going to the summits of Wittenberg, Cornell, and Slide. The 
trail to Wittenberg first leads up the northeast side of Terrace 
Mountain, which is covered with a dense forest, in which the 
most abundant tree is yellow birch. The chestnut, beech, and 
other trees of low elevation are soon left behind. The shrub 
most common is hobble-bush, Viburnum alnifolium. It seems 
rather strange to find this plant in such abundance, for one 
rarely sees it fruit in these dense woodlands. At about 1,800 
feet Acer pennsylvamicum appears. The dry glaciated top of 
Terrace is reached at an altitude of 2,300 feet. Here amid 
the rocks and boulders, the blueberries of two or three species 
grow in great abundance. There are also a few small scat- 
tered trees of balsam fir and black spruce. The mountain ash 
also appears for the first time. Probably the most conspicuous 
plant on Terrace is Clintonia borealis. It grew everywhere along 
the trail, about the rocks and in fact in any place where it could 
get a chance to grow. What a pity its large blue berries are not 
edible, for gallons of them could have been gathered.  Clintonia 
umbellulata, which is common in Woodland valley, is also occa- 
sionally found here. 
_ As we leave Terrace to continue the trail to the summit of 
Wittenberg, we begin to find Trillium undulatum, with its bright 
red berries filled with seeds. This plant is most numerous at an 
altitude of about 2,500 feet. At 3,000 feet the ground hemlock 
or American yew, Taxus minor, becomes plentiful. This small 
