
          731.

also father down near Candle Camp I found most beautiful
specimen of the Silvery Spleenwort [Athyrium thelypteroides [theylpterioides]].  I got a number
of fine specimens.  I do not think I will ever again mistake
this fern or the Lady-fern.  The former is pinnate & pubescent,
the latter bi-pinnate and smooth.  I was so taken up with
my find and collecting specimens, that Mr. W. who had gone
on before though[thought] something had happened to me and was
on the point of returning through the ravine when I met him.
We now went to Orange Grove, crossed the river and went to
the Cascades.  Mr. W. had been told that far up this
stream at the top of the hill, a Mr. Bathgate kept a
boarding-house.  The house had a fine location and all
modern conveniences.  To-day we thought we would follow
the stream to its source and see this place.  The tramp
along this stream was grand, far more rugged in many
places than our ravine.  One place in particular was very
attractive.  The stream here flowed along the base of almost
perpendicularly rising ledges of rock, covered with beautiful ferns
and Columbine.  Some distance up the stream we came
to the run that pumped spring water up to Mr. Morrison's
        