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[March 2, 
ridge are to be found the greater part of the lichens known on 
Mt. Washington, besides a good many subalpine mosses, while 
in the gullies and numerous streams very interesting hepatics 
grow luxuriantly. Among other species are beautiful specimens 
of Jungermannia setiformis finer than I have ever seen on Mt. 
Washington. In fact, although a few of the Mt. Washington 
species are wanting, the Hepaticae are, as a rule, finer than 
on Mt. Washington. Below the chin and near the brink of 
the Smuggler’s Notch is a small sheet of water which, owing 
to unfavorable weather, I have never been able to explore, but 
which promises to be a good field for cryptogams. The Notch 
may be reached by a steep descent from the chin, or by road from 
Stowe. The guide books still speak of a hotel in the Notch, 
but it has been abandoned for several years, and is now a wreck. 
The Notch itself, more picturesque at a distance than when seen 
from below, is very wet, and the clouds settle down upon it so 
that the cryptogamic vegetation is luxuriant. Beautiful ferns 
abound, including the, in America, rare Asplenium viride and 
Woodsia glabella , also found on the nose. Still it must be admitted 
that the ferns are here inferior to those of Lake Willoughby. 
A good path leads from the summit of Mansfield northwest to 
Underhill, a distance of five miles, and as Underhill is on a rail- 
road, the ascent of the mountain on foot is perhaps better accom- 
plished from this direction than from Stowe. If a botanist, how- 
ever, is encumbered with a trunk containing microscope, books, 
and driers, he must start from Stowe since carriages can only 
reach the summit on that side of the mountain. 
A word on the Dixville Notch, in conclusion. Whatever may 
be said in favor of the picturesqueness and geological interest of 
this isolated pass, to the botanist it is pretty sure to be disappoint- 
ing. The mountains on either side are too low to afford even a 
subalpine flora and neither the phaenogams nor cryptogams are of 
special interest. The not very common lichen, Buellia oederi , 
however, is there abundant near Table Rock. 
Having explored carefully the summit of Moosilauke or Mt. 
Mansfield, the botanical student is then in condition to obtain the 
most advantage from the necessarily more expensive and fatiguing 
trip to the top of Mt. Washington or Lafayette. If he decides 
to camp in any of the ravines he should remember that those with 
a southern exposure are much to be preferred to those on the 
