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raspberries, strawberries, two kinds of shadberries and choke 

 cherries. 



The following plants were seen or collected: Cantharellus 

 cibariiis Fr.; Cantharellits floccostis Schw.; Exidiopsis alba C. 

 G. Lloyd on fallen red maple trunk; Flammula expansa Pk. on 

 fallen red maple trunk, type station (in part) ; Ganoderma Tsugae 

 Murrill on hemlock and Tricholoma album (Schaeff.) Quel. 



Cryptogramma Stelleri (Gmel.) Prantl in Glen Doon; Dry- 

 opteris marginalis (L.) A. Gray; and Filix bulbifera (L.) Underw., 

 very graceful and abundant, usually reclining from crevices in 

 the clifYs; but under Mine Lot the fronds erect themselves to 

 get the required light. « 



Hystrix Hystrix (L.) Millsp.; Quercus coccinea Wang.; Rubus 

 odoratus L., a fine thicket and a plant well worthy for orna- 

 mental cultivation; Rosa blanda Ait., with a Phragmidium rust 

 attacking the fruit and stems; Amelanchier spicata (Lam.) C. 

 Koch, with the Roestelia stage of a Gymnosporangiiim rust at- 

 tacking the fruit; Staphylea trifolia L.; Conius rugosa Lam. (C 

 circinata L'Her.), two forms, one with narrower leaves than usual; 

 red bearberry, Uva-Ursi Uva-Ursi (L.) Britton, abundant on 

 East Cliff; Lonicera dioica L., conspicuous in fruit; Viburnum 

 pubescens (Ait.) Pursh; and Campanula rotundifolia L. at Hang- 

 ing Rock, the flowers small, which is probably due to the late- 

 ness of the season. 



Sept. 2g, igo6. We left Albany on the noon train. Not 

 many of the leaves were turned; dogAvood and sumac show some 

 scarlet color and the white birches are beginning to turn yellow. 



Ver>' many fine views were had from the clififs into the amphi- 

 theater of wooded ravines. During the early afternoon tvvo 

 katydids were heard, when on the way up the road; but they had 

 become fairly abundant when we descended, in the late after- 

 noon. 



A bright little boy, by the name of Hallenbeck, from the farm- 

 house above Indian Ladder, acted as guide to Helmus Crack, 

 half a mile west of the wagon road. This is a joint plane fissure 

 in the clifT, and is also known as "The Crevice." One is obliged 

 to turn sideways at the upper end in order to slip down through 



