742 General Notes. [ December, 
So, what with these dry and. exposed rocks, with recesses always 
moist and shaded, a great diversity of situation is offered to plants. In 
one or two places, where the shade is deepest and the supply of moisture 
most abundant and constant, grows Aspidium fragrans. (This I have 
several times met with this season, under two of the precipices of the sum- 
mit of Mansfield, at the base of the cliff of Camel’s Hump near Woodsia 
glabella, and about Indian Falls on the Winooski River, in a line be- 
tween these two mountains.) Asplenium viride, scarce under the south 
cliff of the summit of Mansfield, grows abundantly in thick tufts and mats 
all along the shaded bases of both the eastern and western cliffs, and 
in the deeper woods near by, and follows far up the mountain a stream 
which comes down from the “ Lake of the Clouds,” just below the sum- 
mit of the north peak of Mansfield. Saxifraga Aizoon, seen only at 
Willoughby in some score of specimens, in this region carpets the open 
slopes and shelves all over these cliffs, just as Antennaria plantaginifolia 
covers the soil of old sterile fields. S. aizoides clings to all the moist 
rocks wherever it can get a foothold, and S. oppositifolia is only a little 
less common. 
Of Woodsia glabella there is ten times as much here as Mr. Croydon 
and I found at Willoughby the past season, upon a close examination of 
the mountains on both sides of the lake, and it has planted itself in so 
many places impossible of access except to the birds that there is no 
danger of its ever being exterminated here. 
The following plants are scattered freely over the cliffs : Conioselinum 
Canadense, Artemisia Canadensis, Aster graminifolius, Hedysarum bore- 
ale, Astragalus alpinus, Carex scirpoidea, and Calamagrostis stricta. 
These three Willoughby. plants I did not observe: Arabis petræed, 
Draba incana, and Primula Mistassinica, though it is quite possible that 
a visit made earlier than August, when I first entered the valley, might 
be rewarded by the discovery of the latter. As an offset to these, how- 
ever, in the comparison of this Mansfield region with the Willoughby 
region we have, besides the two or three ferns already mentioned, Pin- 
guicula vulgaris almost as abundant as the Saxifrages. i 
When the fearful drought of the past summer was at its height I spent 
most® pleasantly several days in this cool and fresh mountain valley. 
Though I climbed to nearly every accessible place among the cliffs, I do 
not suppose I found every good thing the region holds. 
A Woodsia which I found on one of the cliffs of Mansfield, proves to 
be W. hyperborea. 
I also inclose a panicle of a Calamagrostis from Smuggler’s Notch, 
which, if it be not Langsdorffii, seems to me to be near that species: 
[It appears to be C. Langsdorffii. — A. G. 
The range of the following plants may be extended. I have picked up 
on the shore of Lake Champlain, Hierochloa borealis; on the shore 
of the lake in Shelburn, Vt., as well as about the Lake of the Clouds, 
