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was difficult, the descent was infinitely more so. We seemed 

 about to pitch down headlong, while the wet, slippery rocks 

 afforded such a precarious footing that the brook was preferable. 

 The descent was a mixture of creeping, crawling, jumping and 

 sliding, the only thoroughly enjoyable way being to sit in the 

 bed of the brook and slide down in the water, an operation that 

 slightly dampened the clothes. On reaching the path we took 



,thu 



Among the plants we did not collect, but which have been col- 

 lected by Messrs. Pringleand Hosford, are Draba interna, Primula 

 Mistassinu 1, Gaiiiana amarclla var. acuta and Polygonum vivi- 



This brief sketch does not claim to be a study of the Notch 

 flora, but simply records a few of its more noticeable features. 



In connection with the flora of Mt. Mansfield and Smugglers' 

 Notch, the following list of Vermont plants, given by Wm. 

 Oakes in 1840, as not then found in any other of the New 

 England States' may be of interest. In case of antiquated names, 

 the modern eq'uivalents are given in parentheses : 





-Va turtium nutans (N. lacustre Gray; 











Hook & Aran.). 



\ ': ila arabi,ans Michx. 









Bois.). 











Flcerkea proserpinacobles Willd. 













Lathyrus ochroleucus Hook. 







Phacar, ,n ii ( Astralagus robbinsii 



Gray). 





ma D. C. 













Viburnum pubescens Pursh. 







Valeriana sylvatica Richards. 







Aster ptarmicoides Torr. & Gray. 











modea Null. 







Justicia a merit a ( Dianthera americar 



ia L.). 





^hepherdia canadensis Xutt. 

 :'v P hylla L. 







'nna Michx. 

 Popuht <anJ,\ans (P. baKamifera, v 





[icans Gray). 



raAH. 







Ulmus racemosa Thomas. 







Listera convallarioides Hook. 







Cafypso bulbosa (C. borealis Salisb.). 







Trillium grandiflora Salisb. 







Carex eburnea Booth. 







Equisetum variegatum Schleicher. 







Aspidium aculeatum Swartz (var. Pm 

 Pterit gracilis (Pelkca gracilis Hook) 



.unii Koch). __ K w PrtsUM. 



