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the hay-scented fern, Dicksonia punctilohula, which is very 

 abundant at Mountain Lake, was in full foliage with numerous 

 young sporangia. 



The margin of the lake was fringed with a dense thicket of 

 Rhododendron maximum in full flower, and in the moist leaf- 

 mold beneath the rhododendrons a number of brilliantly colored 

 mushrooms grew. Near the spring on the right was a bed 

 of Oxalis Acetosella, while nearby were several large trees of 

 Ilex monticola and Betula alleghaniensis, the latter bearing black, 

 aborted forms of Pyropolyporiis igniarius similar to those found 

 commonly on yellow birch in New England. I looked for Par- 

 nassia but could not find it; then my attention was attracted 

 to a pretty shadbush loaded with fruits, some of which were 

 ripe. 



At the lower end of the lake, a species of skullcap,: — either 

 Scutellaria nervosa or 5'. pilosa, — was abundant, covered with 

 small blue flowers. Nearby, in the leaf-mold, I found an insect- 

 eating fungus, Cordyceps militaris, growing on the pupa of the 

 same insect which I found so commonly attacked by it in the 

 mountains of western North Carolina. A beautiful specimen 

 of the mountain silver-spot butterfly, Argynnis cybele, hovered 

 near; but A. diana was not seen during the entire journey, 

 although the males should have been on the wing by that time. 



Field notes were made on many of the flowering plants seen, 

 as well as on the fungi (which have been listed in Mycologia). 

 In addition to those already mentioned, the following might be 

 of interest: 



Herbaceous Plants 



Arisaema triphyllum, just passing out of flower; Clintonia umbellala, in leaf; 

 Trillium grandijlorum, in leaf; Unifolium canadense, in fruit; Apocynum androsaemi- 

 folium, in flower; Baptisia linctoria, so much used to keep flies from horses' heads, 

 in flower; Collinsonia canadensis, in leaf; Dalibarda repens, so often mistaken for an 

 evergreen violet, in leaf; Dianthus Armeria, in flower; Echium vulgare, very common 

 at lower elevations, in flower; Epigaea repens, in leaf; Galax aphylla, more common 

 on Brush Mountain, in fruit; GauUheria procumbens, in flower; Hydatica petiolaris, 

 a rare saxifrage abundant every season among the rocks on top of Bald Knob, 

 in flower; Lysimachia quadrifolia, in flower; Monarda fistulosa, in flower; Monotropa 

 uniflora, in flower and fruit; Prunella vulgaris, in flower; Saponaria officinalis, 

 in flower; Therofon aconilifolimn, on Bald Knob, in flower; and Verbascum Thapsus, 

 in flower. 



