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americana L., trees are beginning to open their fragrant yellowish 

 green flowers. A week ago there was no water in the stream by 

 Washburn's cottage, but to-day it is full banked and falling to 

 the Fallen Rocks. 



Resting again at the flag pole, we then descended the short 

 cut trail to the base of the cliff, and then struck northward 

 through a raspberry thicket and over fallen logs. On entering 

 the woods, one finds the Bear path without trouble, although 

 the trail is fairly well beaten; but few venture here. It is a 

 walk of about one fourth of a mile to Fallen Rocks, and on the 

 way one passes "Sentinel Rock." The path is edged with lovely 

 mosses and ferns, wall rue in great abundance, the graceful 

 fronds of the bladder fern, three feet long, fronds of the slender 

 cliff-brake, nearly a foot long, the walking fern and the purple 

 cliff-brake higher on the cliffs. Rock polypody is not so very 

 common and is usually seen along the brow of the upper cliff. 



The Bridal Veil and the talus slope of "Fallen Rocks" is one 

 of the grandest spots yet seen in the Helderbergs. The scenery 

 and picturesqueness of the place has but few equals in the 

 capital district of the Empire State. The last great fall of rock 

 was about 1830 or 1834, causing a considerable earth jar and 

 dust to fill the air for two or three days. Here one of the camps 

 of other days is called "Elverslide," near the mouth of a large 

 fault cavern, turning abruptly at right angles, through which 

 one can pass and scramble. Overhead are immense rocks caught 

 in the fault. The giant "Monolith" is a huge upright rock, 

 75 feet high, standing on a pedestal, a very few feet from the 

 side of the cliff. Late in the afternoon we descended the talus 

 slope to a deep fern glade, shaded by canoe birch and other 

 deciduous trees. 



The following plants were observed or collected: Peltigera 

 horizontalis (L.) Hoffm. 



Brachythecium rutabulum (L.) B. & S.; Bryum intermedium 

 Brid.; Campylium chrysophylhim (Brid.) Bryhn; Encalypta 

 streptocarpa Hedw.; Gymnostomum curvirostre (Ehrh.) Hedw., 

 foot of Mine Lot, forming a fine calcareous tufa; Mniiim splnu- 

 losum B. &S.; Orthotrichum anomalum Hedw. on rocks; Rhodo- 



