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In the afternoon Miss Wiley led us along the Alan Seeger 

 Trail, the first part of which was open forest. Here we saw our first 

 pileated woodpecker although we had heard them before and 

 observed many places where they had been excavating for larvae. 

 Tall plants of Rhododendron maxinniui, some in full bloom, were 

 photographed at close range. Farther on, the rhododendron in 

 the swamp was blooming, this year, somewhat sparsely. Far out 

 in the swamp we heard the humming of thousands of bees and 

 saw them going in and out through a small hole high up in a "bee 

 tree." Beside our trail were several large trees, a Juneberry, Anie- 

 lanchier canadensis, with a trunk 9}i inches in diameter at four feet 

 from the ground, and two hemlocks, Tsuga canadensis, one 11 5^ 

 feet in circumference, the other 13^ feet. Beyond in the woods 

 was a twayblade, Listera Smallii, about five inches tall in bud. 

 Later, at another location, there were several in bloom. 



After supper all drove to the mountain-top to see the sunset 

 and the display of mountain laurel. Kalmia latijolia. At 2,400 feet 

 altitude the whole mountain seemed to have burst into bloom, for 

 as far as one could see back among the scattered, low trees were 

 masses of laurel everywhere, acres and acres in its prime. Our 

 attention was called to the beeswax odor of the laurel which was 

 surprisingly pronounced. During our return the whippoorwills 

 were singing and greeted us also as we reached camp. 



On Sunday two special trips were planned for our party. First, 

 Dr. Medsger took us to "Beaver Meadows," a swamp area two 

 miles long, formerly dammed by beavers, though none are there 

 now. The trail led among large red spruce, Picea rubra; balsam, 

 Abies balsamea; mountain ash, Pyrus americana; larch, Larix 

 laricina; Juneberry, Amelanchier canadensis ; masses of Rhododen- 

 dron niaximufn ; mountain holly, Nernopanthus mucronata; buck- 

 thorn, Rhamnus; and mountain laurel, Kalmia latifolia. One of 

 our objectives here was the Massachusetts fern growing in great 

 abundance in association with the New York fern. Plants of gold 

 thread, Coptis trijolia; trailing arbutus, Epigaea repens; painted 

 trillium, Trillium undulafum; a fungus, Amanitopsis vaginata, 

 were seen and in the wetter places round-leaved sundew, Drosera 

 rotundifolia; hispid blackberry, Rubns hispidus; and in bloom, 

 winterberry, Ilex verticillata. Perhaps most attractive of all were 

 two species. Small's twayblade, Listera Smallii, several in bloom 



