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grounds, which are open every week day and during the after- 

 noon on Sundays, the latter a recent innovation to accommodate 

 visitors who are not able to visit the park at other times. People 

 come from Rochester, Buffalo, and other neighboring towns, 

 often in the form of classes or excursions of considerable size. 

 The region is accessible from Portage, a station on the Erie Rail- 

 road, distant from New York City about 363 miles. This station 

 is but a short distance from the bridge, referred to in the early 

 part of this article, across which one must go to reach the system 

 of paths installed by Mr. Letchworth. From this bridge one 

 gets his first introduction to the gorge of the Genesee, for a mag- 

 nificent view is obtained, from this high vantage point, of the 

 falls and gorge. 



The whole tract is beautiful and impressive with its rugged 

 wild scenery, the grandeur of its water falls, and the feeling of 

 the wild that pervades it all. The public and the state are cer- 

 tainly to be congratulated upon the acquisition of so beautiful a 

 park, and it is devoutly hoped that no mercenary interests, for 

 none others would have the inclination nor the audacity, will suc- 

 ceed in accomplishing anything that will mar the beauty and the 

 grandeur of this, one of nature's finest works. 

 New York Botanical Garden. 



SOME RARE AND INTERESTING PLANTS OF BERKS 

 COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA 



By W. H. Leieelsperger 



Notwithstanding the fact that some of the plants here listed 

 may never have been credited to this locality, they have all been 

 found by the writer in his many botanical and ornithological 

 tramps. The plants listed have been found either on the Irish 

 Mountains south of Fleetwood, on the Blue Mountains, which lie 

 about fifteen miles north of the Irish Mountains, or in the vast 

 stretch of hills and lowlands between these mountains. 



The "Illustrated Flora" of Britton and Brown has been fol- 

 lowed in nomenclature and arrangement. 



Ophioglossum vulgatinn L. Rare. Specimens of this odd little 



