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The "spring" which wells up a full-grown brook just at the 

 entrance of the Notch with water of icy coldness at all seasons 

 of the year ; Bingham Falls a few miles farther down this same 

 brook, with its fantastic gorge and wild cascade ; the steep cliffs 

 of the Notch rising thousands of feet on either hand, with their 

 numerous ravines and rich subalpine flora, all have a potent at- 

 traction to every one who has visited and seen. 



Along these rivulets, by whose wearing action the cliffs have 

 been made possible to man, are found Dryoptcris fragrans, 

 Woodsia glabella and W. alpina, Pellaea gracilis, Polystichum 

 Braunii, Asplenium viride, Blcphariglottis grandiflora, Saxifraga 

 oppositifolia, S. Aizo'on and 5. antiimnalis, Astragalus Jesupi, 

 Hedysarum Amcricauum, Draba incana, Armaria vema, Pyrola 

 minor, Gcntiana acuta, Castilleja acuminata, Erigeron hyssopifo- 

 lius, Solidago Virgaurca, vars. and that choicest of beauties and 

 wonders, the insect-eating Pinguicula vulgaris. 



On the summit of the mountain the scenery is marvelously 

 beautiful, whether one clambers down to the " Lake of the 

 Clouds " on a clear day and looks back at the rugged majestic 

 " Chin " or sits on the western side of the " Nose " at sunset and 

 sees the distant golden glint of Lake Champlain, or rises before 

 dawn and watches the sun drink up the rolling seas of fog. 



The summit flora also has its attractions for the botanists ; 

 Polygonum viviparum, Comandra livida, Viburnum pauciflorum , 

 Salix Uva-ursi, Vaccinium cacspitosum, V. idiginosnm, Vitis- 

 Idaca, Nabalus Boottii and Diapcnsia are some names to conjure 

 one's exchanges with. 



And mosses and lichens are very abundant. The speaker has 

 personally collected there two varieties new to North America, 

 and not yet collected elsewhere on the continent, namely, Hyp- 

 num fluitans Atlanticum Ren. and Dicranum longifolium subal- 

 pinum Milde. 



A comparison of the flora of this region and that of Mt. Washing- 

 ton, brings out the fact that here are several northern plants not 

 found at the loftier elevation of the Mt. Washington region, al- 

 though the conditions there are more severelyalpineandsupposedly 

 more favorable. None of the saxifrages mentioned above can be 



