THE AMERICAN BOTANIST. 
indeed must be willing to wade through mud and danger- 
ous mires and crawl through entangled vines if he would 
behold the fair Elysian fields of Great Pan's wonderland ! 
Here the cowslip or marsh marigold and tall blue violets 
carpet these places ere yet the trees are clothed with 
tender leaves and soon after, about May 20th, the mocca- 
sin-flowers — one species after another — unfurl their dainty 
petals, conspicuous among which are the pink and large 
yellow species. A full month later the showy queen 
{Cypripedium reginge) towers above the ferns and nods 
content with her own reflections in the sluggish pools 
bordered round with violets. 
Many pipe-like wands of Habenaria swo-j among the 
sedges — Pan's own pipes indeed — upon which many wood- 
land thrushes perch and sing their songs of June. Mean- 
while the Dutchman's breeches and the anemone amid the 
wee small white violets are fading along the edges of the 
bog, and in the small hemlocks and spruces the robins are 
feeding their 3'oting and shrilly voicing their fear, and 
wishing strangers be gone ! 
The old pine and hemlock logs half buried in the mould 
crumble beneath our tread and bespeak another age and 
the dust-bloom of many primeval springs during the cen- 
turies since the ancient Lake of Aurora disappeared from 
these flinty pockets of the Hoosac. Over the wildman's 
fence along the western edge of the marsh, tangles of 
willow are sheltered among the pines making the seclusion 
complete. Beyond these the marsh buttercups, iris and 
dwarf cornel bloom. On the higher mounds the winter- 
green vines, clintonia and wild strawberries flourish in 
I)eace. Far beyond on the higher ridges of the pastures 
the hawthorn bushes of genus Crataegus are massed with 
rifts of snowy, fragrant bhxnn, while bees, butterfiies and 
nesting birds are flitting from bush to bush searching for 
their own. Xestled in the " hollow vale" at the base of 
Mount Adams on the north, the "Tunnel Citv'" rears its 
tali chimney -piles, pouring forth the vile smoke of civiliza- 
tion which creeps over the highland summits to the outer 
world. 
