THE AMERICAN BOTANIST. 
little glen leads up among the fern-clad hills where the 
orchis and a host ot hepatica and wind-flowers huddle to- 
gether with jack-in-the-pulpit and rare spikes of Haben- 
aria. Over the distant ridges are swamp3' pockets where 
the large yellow moccasin-flowers hide, and near by be- 
neath the spruces the pink moccasin-flowers blossom in 
select groups. On the hillsides above, the small round- 
leaved orchis stand as sentinel over all. There is an ex- 
quisite delight awaitingthe explorer of these hills when he 
first beholds them. 
At this season the ledges and clearings are ablaze with 
columbine, and masses of swamp apple blossoms [Azaka 
nudiBora). 
The Ragged Mountain range consists of three or four 
prominent saw-tooth peaks and are the foot-hills of Grey- 
lock, beginning at the Limekilns near North Adams, where 
Hawthorne located the scene of histale EtA.'i/; T'irand, they 
extend southward to the New England Limekilns in 
Adams at the base of Greylock. These sloi)es, as steep as 
the roof ot a house, are adorned with crags and perpendi- 
cular bluffs and are seldom if ever ascended, save by the 
crows and hawks. The tourists and the youths of the 
City choose the higher summits of Greylock's brother- 
hood, accessible by the smoother paths and thus the 
Ragged Mountains are neglected. 
The highest peak, more than 2,500 feet a])ove the sea 
level, was christened Mount Hawks, by Rev. Washington 
Gladden* in memory of Sergeant John Hawks, who with 
his twenty-two men held Fort Massachusetts a-ainst the 
fearful forces of the French and Indians. Mr. Everett has 
called the Hoosac Pass the Therm<)])y]re of Xfw England. 
Indeed the verdant meadows at the Ijasc cf Mount (ircv- 
lock's brotherhood were scenes <>t the hnivest riLrhts 
recorded in our histon.' and here have waved the tlags of 
the English, French and Americans in their turn. 
This region is the same that influenced and inspired 
Hawthorne and Thoreau between 1838 and 18 U>. 
