Lake Umbagog
1909.
June 3 [June 3, 1909]
(No 2)
so characteristic of this species in early spring. The masses
of white made the trees conspicuous at a great distance, even
after the daylight had nearly gone when I could see them
across the lake gleaming like patches of snow on its otherwise
somber shores.
  The hobble bush, also, was in fullest bloom. It is, I
think, the most strikingly beautiful flowering shrub found in 
this region especially if viewed from a distance of only a few 
yards and from a little above when the browned, rounded, rough-
veined leaves (now almost fully grown) do not conceal the large,
snow-white flowers in the [?] that rise between and only
a little above them. These leaves are ordinarily in pairs and
slightly drooping. Their coloring now is a peculiarly rich yet rather
light green. Their conspicuous & profuse veining with their perfect
shape make them a very attractive setting for the flowers.
  I found quantities of Phegopteris dryopteris just unfolding
its fronds and growing almost everywhere along the roadside from
the hotel to the deep hollow, where I have searched for it
closely yet vainly in midsummer.
  Actea (probably rubra) common & in full bloom.
  The Sarsaparilla plant is much in evidence and very
attractive just now for its recently unfolded leaves are of
a strikingly rich if rather light brown color. Just beneath
them hang the clusters of flower buds, about to open.
  The foliage on the larger forest trees has grown &
thickened amazingly in the past two days. The
delicate pink and salmon tints are fading perceptibly.
Soon the forest will be in full leaf and of the nearly
uniform summer green. Indeed the unfolding of the
leaves and the change from early spring to midsummer
aspect is accomplished here in the space of only a few days.
Vegetation