9° 2 General Notes. [November, 



of scarce and local plants found there. It was the desire to col- 

 lect and study in their native haunts some of the rarest of these 

 northern plants, that induced our party of four to visit Mt. Mans- 

 field in July. Mt. Mansfield is the highest of the Green moun- 

 tains, rising some forty-three hundred feet above sea level. 



The crest of the mountain, as seen ■ from below, bears some 

 resemblance to the profile of a human face, and hence the south 

 elevation of the crest has received the name of the Nose, while 

 the northern, distant about two miles and some three hundred 

 feet higher than the Nose, is called the Chin. The view is too 

 well known and has been "too often described to call for notice 



We approached the mountain from the Underhill side. After 

 a hot climb up the path we reached the top and were taken care 

 of at the Summit House. The plants along the path up the 

 mountain did not differ noticeably from those usually observed in 

 the White mountains. Little was done the first day except to 

 investigate the crest of the mountain and enjoy the magnificent 

 view of Lake Champlain and the Adirondack mountains, but the 

 next morning with the arrival of Mr. F. H. Hosford, of Charlotte, 

 an enthusiastic botanist and explorer, well known to collectors by 

 his carefully-prepared specimens, the botanical work began in 



With the exception of the vicinity of the Summit House, the 

 crest of the mountain is destitute of trees. On the Nose in a nook 

 in the face of the cliff, we found a few specimens of the rare 

 As ^ (/ /'"• fra ins, readily recognized by its odor of new-mown 

 hay, which lingers long after the fronds are pressed and dried. 

 Here also was a single shrub of Salix balsamea. 



In the damp moss under the dwarf evergreens, near the house, 

 we gathered Habenaria obtusata and the tiny Listera cordata Y 

 ranked by Dr. Gray in his interesting paper on the statistics of 

 the northern flora, among the twenty-one scarcest species of the 

 region ; also .- , y the careless 



observer for . , repens in bud. Along 



the ridge joining the Nose and Chin, numerous specimens were 

 collected. Lcdi •„• .V /- ' /,-/,, ( : ,_,/., < ,<,,/>,, An nana ywnlandica 

 were in full flower, whil- Diafiensia Laff.ouica forming dense 

 mossy cushions, was ripening its fruit. Coiuandra livida, with 

 its minute axillary flowers was at first carelessly neglected from 

 its resemblance to C. umbel! at a. 



On the sides of the mountain near the lop, we noticed Habena- 

 ria dilatata, conspicuous with its snowy white flowers ; Kalinia 

 glauca, one of the prettiest of our semi-alpine plants, and Trillium 

 cryikrocarpum, which looked strangely out of place blooming in 

 July. From the Chin, after carefully taking our bearings, we 

 struck, or rather endeavored to strike, a bee-line through the 

 brush and bogs for the Lake of the Woods, which seems, as you 



