Peterboro, New Hampshire.
1899.
July & Aug
(No.2)
were new to me and I dug very many of the more
attractive kinds to transplant in my wild gardens at
Cambridge and Concord whither I went on the acreage about
once every week or ten days.
[margin]Plants[/margin]
  Among the more interesting plants found this summer were
Monesis grandiflora which carpeted the ground over a space of
about one quarter of an acre on a hillside shaded by white
pines near the brook below our house; Habenaria fimbriata
abundant, H. [Habenaria] orbiculata common, and H. [Habenaria] hookeri a few
plants all growing in a deep, rich spruce swamp east of
Cunningham Pond, Geranium robustinum and Eupatorium
aquitoides growing abundantly on the face or at the base of
a low, rocky cliff on the east side of Pack Monadnock & within
a few yards of the carriage road which ascends that
mountain. Goodyera pubescens one small patch, G. [Goodyera] tesselata
widely distributed but nowhere numerous; G. [Goodyera] repens only 
in the Orchid Swamp where we saw upwards of one hundred
plants. Of Arctostaphylus uva-ursi I found several large 
patches by the roadside in the valley near the river.
To the list of ferns we added Phegopteris dryopteris
of which Mr. Purdie discovered a small colony growing on
the sides of a wood path near our brook, Aspidium s[?]
which was abundant throughout the Orchid Swamp.
Asplenium trichomanes of which fifteen or twenty plants were
clinging to the crevices of the cliff on Pack Monadnock.
Cystopteris fragilis about equally numerous on the same cliff.
Botrychium cuneatum abundant in the open fields &
common also in woods, Botrychium simplex & Botrychium [c?] a 
few plants growing near together in woods on the 
shore of Cunningham Pond.
  The common hornbeam (Carpinus) is common along the Contoocook.
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