TORREYA 



July, 1918 

 Vol. 18 No. 7 



THE FLORA OF INDIAN LADDER AND VICINITY; 



TOGETHER WITH DESCRIPTIVE NOTES 



ON THE SCENERY 



By Stewart H. Burxham 

 {Continued fro7n June Torreya) 



July 21, 1907. We left the city on the morning train. Fields 

 and banks near Delmar bright with rabbit-foot clover and black- 

 eyed Susans. Visited Tory House, and from thence along the 

 brow of the cliffs to Helmus Crack and Hailes'.- Cavern. The 

 cave is being enlarged at the entrance, and one can walk in with- 

 out stooping much, although a considerable stream of water is 

 flowing from it to-day. The station for Placodium elegans (Link) 

 Ach. has been destroyed. Prof. John H. Cook, whom we met, 

 told us that he found, when exploring the cave a year ago, that 

 one could go about 3,000 feet, and that the last 1,600 feet one 

 was obliged to hitch along on one side. It extends farther, 

 but had fallen in. Hailes measured it off inaccurately with a 

 pedometer (not being able to walk) 23^2 niiles, but the real dis- 

 tance is less than three fifths of a mile. 



Returning, we took the path along the base of the cliffs past 

 . the waterfalls, both of which were fine to-day, on account of a 

 heavy thunder shower in this section last evening, which filled the 

 streams from bank to bank. There is much spray about the 

 waterfalls, and a growing rainbow near the foot of Mine Lot Fall. 

 After resting on Table Rock, we proceeded to East Cliff, past a 

 temporary camp on the brow of the old man's face. On the 

 way, in the woods, we found Erineum galls on the leaves of 

 Quercus rubra L. and Acer Saccharuni Marsh. The linden, TiJia 

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