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A hog-nosed snake, brownish with a few markings and a broad 

 flat head was seen; it lay very quiet and did not attempt to 

 move away. Near the stream where the chain-fern grew, we 

 stopped a few minutes for lunch; an old lady passed and went 

 into the woods with her hand-saw, soon returning with a bundle 

 of dry sticks. She looked quite quaint and old-fashioned, and 

 asked us if the water was good. 



Several of the clay beds, which have made this portion of the 

 Island famous, were visited. The clay deposited here when the 

 great Laurentian glacier moved down from the north is bluish 

 in color and very fine-grained. The clay beds lie beneath the 

 glacial till soil of the Island and often two or three different 

 colored sands are found in the same pit, and curiously shaped red 

 sandstone nodules. These valuable beds are said to have been 

 first worked by Mr. Kreischer over 50 years ago, the industry 

 of making brick, tile and stoneware giving employment to many 

 of the inhabitants of this portion of the Island. One of the 

 abandoned clay pits was an interesting club-moss locality; 

 growing in a small area were plants of Lycopodiiim adpressum 

 (Chapm.) Lloyd & Underw., Lycopodium alopecitroides L., 

 Lycopodium inundatum L., and Mr. William H. McDonald's 

 form of Lycopodium adpressum, which was described as forma 

 polyclavatum McDonald in the Fern Bulletin 9: 8-9. Jan. 

 1899, the main distinction from the species being that the fruiting 

 portion bears from 2-6 spikes. Clute's variety of the common 

 braken, pseudocaudatum, "which differs from the species in its 

 longer, narrower and more distinct pinnules" togecher with fine 

 plants of the nodding ladies' tresses, Ibidium cernuum (L.) 

 House; the orange-grass, Sarothra gentianoides L.; Viola emar- 

 ginata (Nutt.) Le Conte; Viola lanceolata L.; Viola primulifolia 

 L. and Bartonia virginica (L.) BSP. occur. Search was made 

 for the savin-leaved club-moss, Lycopodium sabinaefolium Willd., 

 which Mr. Buchheister said grew here, but a fire had probably 

 destroyed it. Another abandoned clay pit yielded Rynchospora 

 glomerata (L.) Vahl; the slender yellow-eyed grass, Xyris flexiiosa 

 Willd.; Polygala Nuttallii DC; the hairy thoroughwort, Eiipa- 

 torium pubescens Muhl. and the vervain thoroughwort, Eupa- 

 torium verbenaefolium Mx. 



