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looked as though some giant had come with a monstrous knife 
and had sliced off all the branches which protruded toward the 
north! Eventually we descended again into the zone of forests 
and noted with a sigh of relief the great increase in forms of wild 
life. The fireweed (Chamaenerion angustifolium), the red-berried 
elder (Sambucus racemosus), the American mountain-ash (Sor- 
bus americana), the American larch (Larix laricina), the tall 
flat-topped white aster (Doellingeria umbellata), and the pearly 
everlasting (Anaphalis margaritacea) were the most abundant 
plants observed. 
New YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN 
