
          747.

* To make sure that it was now dead, Mr. W. stabbed it several
times in the throat.

a most beautiful specimen of Corallorhiza multiflora, the first
specimen of its kind I have found.  It looked like a gigantic specimen
of C. odontorhiza.  I called Mr. W. to come see the plant.
When we returned to the camp we found that the snake was
again very much alive and required to be struck once more
on its head.*   We now packed up, wrapped the snake in
paper, and started for O.G.  As we went through the ravine
I collected some Adiantum pedatum and Polypodium vulgare.

Close to Candle Camp we saw, broken off and scattered about
on the ground, many specimens of Christmas Fern, Maiden Hair
and Marginal Shield Fern.  On the rock, beyond the camp, I
found Woodsia obtusa.  At the Mill we showed the men
our snake and they pronounced it a copper-head.  As it still
showed life, Mr. W. allowed one of the men to show us
how to kill a snake by swing it once or twice rapidly around, 
holding it by the tail when the head was torn from the body.
Whether this always happens, I do not know, perhaps it only
happened with ours, as it had been stabbed in the throat.
We soon crossed the river and went up the hillside to the
Cascades and then followed the stream up to the bath-house.
        