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CONDITIONS BY COUNTIES. 



nor one more interesting to the student and collector on account 

 of its varied forms of plant and animal life than this glady 

 region lying at an elevation of 3,100 feet above the sea and sur- 

 rounded by mountains which rise from 1,000 to 1,500 feet above 

 it. 



A few of the characteristic species of plants, mammals and 

 birds collected by a party which visited the Glades in July, 1909, 

 are named below : 



Plants. 



Red Spruce, Picea rub ens. Abundant on margins of glades 

 and on mountain summits. 



Quaking Aspen, Populus tremuloides. Growing on margin 

 of glades. 



Mountain Ash, Sortus americana. Common around glades. 



Ground Hemlock, Taxus canadensis. Shrub growing abun- 

 dantly in wet, shady places. 



Northern Rattlesnake Plantain, Epipactis repens var. 

 ophioides. 



Collected by Dr. John L. Sheldon under a hemlock tree near 

 the edge of the glades. 



Rose Pogonia, Pogonia opMoglossoides. Common in sphag- 

 num moss in open glades. 



Horned Bladderwort, Utriciilaria cornuta. Found "growing 

 in Big Glade. 



Round-leaved Sundew, Drosera rotundifolia. Common in 

 open glades. 



Sphagnum Moss, Sphagnum Girgensdhnii Russ. This north- 

 em species was found growing with other Sphagnums in the 

 glades and collected by Dr. Sheldon. 



American Cranberry, Vaccmium macrocarpon. Common on 

 edges of open glades. 



Small Cranberry, Vaccinium Oxycoccos. Abundant over all 

 the open glades. A peculiar ''speckled" form of this berry was 

 collected in Round and Flag glades. 



Mammals. 



Yellow-cheeked Meadow Mouse, Mdcrotus chrotorrJiinus. 

 One specimen collected in July, 1909 on southern edge of 

 glades by Fred E. Brooks. Not taken before south of the Adiron- 

 dack mountains, New York. 



