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the Moon Haw Club, three miles west of West Shokan, Tiarella 
cordifolia was conspicuous. Trillium erectum was in fruit at 1200 
feet, but at 2500 feet it was just coming into bloom and there 
was joined by Trillium undulatum, in fine flower. Streptopus, 
both roseus and amplexifolius, with their dainty, nodding, con- 
cealed flowers, were numerous at from about 1500 to 3500 feet. 
Clintonia borealis was past bloom at 1500 feet, but in prime 
flowering condition at 3000. Viburnum alnifolium had likewise 
passed blooming at lower levels but the showy outside flowers 
were handsome at 3000 feet. A curious phenomenon was noted 
in this shrub. Several showed only one pair of leaves, at the end 
of the stems, and they were abnormally large, ten inches in 
diameter, whereas the usual size is about half that. Examination 
showed that the winter leaf- and flower-buds, which are fat and 
juicy, had been nipped off by deer, and that the pair of leaves 
at the ends of the stems or branches had developed from auxili- 
ary buds which had appeared just back of the terminal ones. 
All of the energy of the rising sap had poured into the two leaves 
at the end, accounting for their extraordinary size. 
An interesting find was a single plant of Habenaria Hookeri, 
with great round leaves flat on the ground, not yet in bloom. No 
Cypripediums were found in the beech and maple woods above 
1500 feet, but Cypripedium acaule was numerous in oak woods 
on the south side of High Point, at about 800 feet. Near the top 
of Balsam Cap, a large slide, 1400 feet long and 100 feet wide, 
which occurred in 1930, showed a great scar in the forest cover. 
Spruces and yellow birches of large size were overwhelmed in the 
slide, which was apparently due to saturation of the loose rocks 
and earth by a three days’ storm, on a slope where the cover 
was barely in repose, and was partly held in place by the roots of 
two mosses, a fern that looked like Woodsia obtusa, and seedling 
beeches and maples. A handsome colony of the orange aethalia 
ated Point. Its range, as reported in manuals of twenty years 
ago, is from Wisconsin and northern Illinois westward, but here 
