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forest, is to be seen. It was some time before I could make it 

 seem possible that the square battlements of Table Rock and 

 other prominences were not a portion of man's handiwork; 

 verily, they suggest the parapets of the castle of some feudal 

 king. Did not the Indians have a name for Mine Lot Fall? 

 The people who follow the beaten trail along the base of the 

 cliffs lose much of the beauty of the spot. 



One finds many robin and other bird nests in the low-browsed 

 and branched elm bushes below Tory Hook. The woods were 

 aflame with the witch-hazel. Returned through Glen Doon, 

 where, lower down, it reminds one of the Adirondack woods. 

 The sharp-lobed hepatica is very abundant here, and often with 

 unblotched leaves. 



The following plants found or observed: Cantharellus auran- 

 tiacus (Wulf.) Fr.; Chlorosplenmm aeriiginosum (Oeder) 

 DeNot. on old logs; CoUybia velutipes (Curt.) Quel, on elm logs; 

 Fomes fomentarius (L.) Gill, on beech and birch; Fomes 

 pinicola (Sw.) Cke. on birch (!) logs; Geaster saccatus Fr. ; 

 Helotium citriniim (Hedw.) Fr. on old logs; Hypholoma per- 

 plexiim Pk. ; Lycoperdon Wrightii B. & C.; Marasmiiis siccus 

 (Schw.) Fr. ; Pholiota Johnsoniana Pk. ; Pleurotiis ostreatus 

 (Jacq.) Quel, on maple stumps; Pleurotus porrigens (Pers.) 

 Quel, on hemlock logs and stumps; Pleurotus iilmarius (Bull.) 

 Quel, on elm; Pluteus cervinus (Schaeff.) Quel, on old stumps; 

 Polyporus brumalis (Pers.) Fr. on elm and other logs; Polyporus 

 caesius (Schrad.) Fr. on birch and other wood; Polyporus chi- 

 oneus Fr. on birch limbs; Polyporus resiiiosus (Schrad.) Fr. on 

 basswood and other logs; Poria radiculosa (Pk.) Sacc. on old 

 logs; Poria suhacida (Pk.) Sacc. on old logs and Trlcholoma per- 

 sonatum (Fr.) Quel. 



Peltigera aphthosa (L.) Willd. and Peltigera canina (L.) Hoffm. 



Amhlystegium orthocladon (Bv-) P. Kindb., var.; Dicranum 

 flagellare Hedw.; Entodon cladorrhizans (Hedw.) C.M.; Hypnum 

 Haldanianum Grev. on decaying logs; Hypnum tenuirostris 

 (B. & S.) Broth.; Neckera gracilis (James) Kindb., at the base 

 of Mine Lot Fall, found there about 1869 by Verplanck Colvin, 

 who reported it under the name Homalia trichomanoides, 



