
          754.

now completed and that the water was running over it.  In
a number of places we found the water but a few inches
from the road.  On the hillside we saw that trees had
been blazed to mark the position of the new road.  We
soon came to the rock covered with Walking fern and
found it directly in the path of the new road.  I, therefore
thought it wise to take as many of the best specimens I could
conveniently carry.  A short distance farther on, we came
to where they were building the new road.  What a tearing
up and disfiguring of Nature is here going on!  No doubt,
two or more years will elapse before these dreadful
scars will have been healed!  Fortunately, our Gentiana
crinita place, the one we selected for our transplanting
experiments was well out of reach of the rising water;
here, even, no new road was necessary.  We examined
the place to-day carefully and what a nice surprise was
in store for us - 17 nice little plants, which had grown 
from the seed disseminated by our transplanted Gentiana.

We covered our plants somewhat, so as to hide them from
passers by.  When we came to field where the Mertensia
        