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NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 



The top of Mt Wallface is the only known New York station for the 

 spiked wood rush, Jtuicoides spicatum (L^.) Kuntze. It is rarely visited by- 

 botanists, but it deserves some attention. 



Indian pass is one of the most interesting places in the town, not only 

 to the botanist but also to the tourist and the lover of the wildest and 

 grandest scenery. Probably no locality of equal area in the town is 

 inhabited by a greater number of species of mosses and liverworts than 

 this. They cover the vast masses of broken rocks that are here piled 

 together in the utmost confusion, they partly conceal the crevices between 

 them and spring up beneath them in places not occupied too long by the 

 slowly melting accumulations of winter's snow and ice. It is also an 

 excellent place in which to observe the influence of low temperature and 

 limited sunlight in retarding the development of plants not accustomed 

 to such conditions. 



The red raspberry, Rubus strigosns Mx., the dwarf cornel, Cornus 

 Canadensis L. and Labrador tea, Ledum Groenlandicum Oeder, which, in 

 other parts of the town, are in blossom in June, were here found in 

 blossom the middle of August. The average altitude of the bottom of 

 the pass is about 2900 ft, but the prevailing low temperature, due in 

 part to the short daily duration of the direct rays of the sun and in part 

 to the presence of deposits of snow and ice under the huge piles of 

 rocks, affords a suitable condition for the maintenance of certain species 

 usually found at a much higher elevation. The bog bilberry, Vaccinium 

 uliginosum L., and the fir club moss, Lycopodiiun Selago L., are examples 

 of this kind. The summit of Mt Mclntyre is the best locality for high 

 mountain or subalpine species. It and its near neighbor, Mt Wallface,, 

 permit us to add to the list several species that occur only in these 

 elevated places. A good trail from Adirondack lodge to the top of Mt 

 Mclntyre makes this station easily accessible. By taking an early start 

 the journey can be accomplished in one day, allowing two or three hours 

 for botanizing on the top of the mountain. 



There are several interesting localities only a short distance beyond 

 the limits of the town. Had the plants of these places been included 

 the number of species in the list would have been considerably increased. 

 The enthusiastic botanist will not be kept from visiting such places as Mt 

 Whiteface, Eagles eyrie, Wilmington notch, Cascadeville and Avalanche 

 pass because a town line intervenes. 



In making this list of the plants of North Elba it has been our purpose 

 to follow the nomenclature of our standard manuals so far as possible, 

 even though they may not in all cases be quite up to date. It is expected 

 that it will be used in connection with these manuals. In the preparation 

 of the list of flowering or seed bearing plants and the ferns and fern allies, 



