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Festuca — Common in woods at Summit
(850 ft).
July 24. To Tracadigash Rvr. Sella on
Gavel (red sand stone conglomerate). Stop
in edge of Large Cedar Swamp — Orchis
arundinacea fruiting abundantly, all the many
rootstocks develop under the leaf, i.e.
point in same direction. Epidendrum palustre
& oliganthum — Listera cordata, Hab., Oletnata,
Smooth Kalman, Carex gynocrates etc. An
Eriophorum near palustrachyon but very
slender small few-flowered.
Through burn now covered with
raspberries, Fine feast. Then up stiff rocky
slope through White Birch forest. Canibou
trails & Droppings everywhere, Occasional
bear-signs. Slope a dense Thistle of
Clematis verticillaris in splendid fruit.
Stiff hard turf over loose sharp clay-
rock. Carex Backii abund. from 1100
ft to Summit, which Collins Anemis
(corrected) makes 1930 ft. Cliffs under
the Summit — cross 150—300 ft high, with
Long dry Talus slope below — Place 29