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and flanked by a number of ravines. The phaenogamic flora is 
chiefly remarkable for the immense quantity of Arenaria groen- 
landica which is so abundant on the bare slopes of the summit 
that in July they seem in the distance to be still covered with 
snow. The subalpine carices and mosses abound on the grassy 
bogs of the northern peak where one also finds Thamnolia ver- 
micularis , the alpine Cetrariae, Umbilicariae, Cladoniae, mixed 
with the Buellia geographica found on all bare mountains above the 
4,000 ft. limit. The rocks of the South Peak also afford interest- 
ing lichens, but, as far as my experience goes, the ravines, in spite 
of an air of mystery thrown about them by somewhat sentimental 
writers on mountain scenery, and by the romantic names given to 
them, are of very little botanical interest. 
Better in some respects than Moosilauke is Mt. Mansfield, the 
highest of the Green Mountains, about 4,300 ft. high. It is not 
so easily reached from Boston. One must take the Vermont Cen- 
tral to Waterbury, Vt., near Montpelier, and thence is a ride of 
ten miles by stage to Stowe, where one must stay overnight un- 
less the days are long and the weather good. From Stowe a road 
leads to the summit, five miles to the foot of the mountain and 
five miles up a sufficiently good but not very interesting road, at 
least not until comparatively near the summit. Seen from below 
Mt. Mansfield is not prepossessing, and not to be compared with 
Camel’s Hump, the most picturesque of the Vermont mountains. 
From the summit, however, the view is fine, and it has the great 
advantage of offering a narrow ridge more than two miles 
long, along which the botanist can easily find his way without 
fatigue in almost any weather. Here, as elsewhere, it has been 
considered necessary to regard the ridge as representing the out- 
line of a human face, looking upward with the conventional nose 
and chin, the latter unfortunately in this case 340 ft. higher than 
the former. At the base of the nose is a small but comfortable 
hotel which is an excellent spot flora which to make excursions. 
Laterally the ridge is seamed with numerous clefts and gullies in 
which hepatics, lichens, and some species of algae abound, and 
looking down the mountain in the direction of the chin and to the 
northeast is the Smuggler’s Notch, one of the best collecting 
grounds in New England. The interesting’ phaenogams of this 
region are well known from the collections of Pringle and others. 
The cryptogams are also numerous and interesting. On the 
