THE BRYOLOGIST. 
Vol. IX. September, 1906 . No. 5 . 
THIRD BOTANICAL SYMPOSIUM. 
Joseph Crawford. 
The very successful Summer Botanical Symposium, recently' held at 
Little Moose Lake, in the Adirondacks, was a graceful compliment to Mrs. 
Hugh M. Smith, who not only secured permission for us to use the forest pre- 
serve of the Adirondack League Club, but planned expeditions to various 
points for our special work and maintained the agreeable role of hostess 
throughout the week, very ably assisted by Miss Masters, another League 
member. 
The headquarters were established in Mountain Lodge, delightfully situ- 
ated on the north shore of Little Moose Lake, with easy trails in all direc- 
tions, by land and water, though one or two guides were necessary many 
times for obvious reasons, with an extra supply to act as ferrymen when the 
start was made across the lake. 
Being a preserve, the forest is intact as far as we could penetrate, and 
while we reached no great altitude, the highest, Panther Mountain, being 
only 2460 ft., the northern mountain flora was everywhere evident. The 
hardwoods were of the maples, beeches and birches; the cone-bearing, the 
spruces, balsam, arbor- vitse, hemlock and larch; the undershrubs of hobble- 
bush and huckleberry serving as a cover to the ever-present mountain sorrel 
and lycopods. 
Most of the lakes are deep and protect little vegetable growth, though 
some small ones with quaking- bog borders were quite prolific in orchids, sun- 
dews, heaths and sedges. Ferns were very evident everywhere and ranged 
from the small moonwort to the enormous fronds of bracken nearly six feet 
across. The most common fern was the variety intermedia of Dryopteris 
spinulosa. The northern orchids were also abundant, many species just 
approaching the flowering stage. The mosses, hepatics and lichens were 
remarkably abundant and in excellent condition but we could not add a whit 
to Mrs. Smith's very complete catalogue of them. Owing to the forest form- 
ation the grasses had very slim chances, likewise the sedges except in bogs 
and other moist places. 
It is yet too soon to go into detail of the work done during the week ; but 
the energy displayed then and there will have a great showing from, and 
including, the porcupine feast and funeral, to the continuous mosquito smudge 
and punkie dope. There is an unwritten law distributed among us that each 
year we must prove in the field, existence of new species, this year notwith- 
standing the presence of several well known makers of genera and species 
there were times when they were out of sight, and the evidence of the 
amateur became pronounced. 
The July Bryologist was issued July 2, 1906. 
