Flora of the . Ulegany Slate Park Region 181 



Panicum linearifolium Thelypteris noveboracensis 



Epilobium angustifolium Carex eephalophora 



Panicum dichotomum / Juncus tenuis 



Vicia caroliniana Hepatica americana 



Lespedeza intermedia Carex convoluta 



Uvularia perfoliata Helianthus divaricatus 



Aster macrophyllus Spiranthes gracilis 



Cypripedium acaule Uvularia sessilifolia 



Adiantum pedatum Lycopodium clavatum 



Desmodium rotundifolium Agrostis perennans 



Asclepias phytolaccoides Danthonia spicata 



Dennslaedtia punctilobula Epigaea repens 



Solidago juncca Aralia nudicaulis 



6 River Bluffs on the Road to Elko 



For a distance of about a mile approaching Elko, the 

 highway is cut through the shoulders of several small 

 bluffs of the lower Chemung shales. Below the highway 

 the surface descends very steeply in some places to the 

 railroad below, where numerous cuts were made in the 

 shale in order to secure a straight right of way. In some 

 places the river flows close to the base of these bluffs. 

 Above the highway the slopes are rather steep and several 

 rather deep ravines descend quite steeply toward the river. 

 In such places the highway is carried over the ravines on 

 high fills. These slopes have been for the most part 

 burned over repeatedly since lumbering, and evidences of 

 a fire in the spring of 1926 were very plain. The result 

 is a very thin soil, in some places scarcely any soil over the 

 shale. What soil there is supports a rather sparse flora 

 of plants which prefer such exposed sterile situations. 



On the shoulders of these bluffs the principal arbores- 

 cent species are young growths of Sassafras, Sassafras 

 officinale; Red Oak, Quercus rubra; Beech, Far/us grandi- 

 folia; White Oak, Quercus alba; Chestnut Oak, Quercus 

 montana; Hop Hornbeam. Ostrya virginiana; Sweet 

 Birch, Bctula lenta; and on the bluffs below the road where 



