. The Granite monthly : a magazine of literature, history and state progress . guests as memorials of theirvisits. A ledgy crest is by no means char-acteristic of this mountain, thoughthe eastern wall of the old stonehouse is buttressed by quite an out-crop of shelving rocks, weatheredand scarred; and broken rocks aboundin spots. Neither is it bald as itsname would indicate (Moosi, bald, posed,—wood and sheep sorrel, poke,goldenrod, asters, buttercups (twoor three inches high), mustard, Clin-tonia, snakehead, everlasting, low cor-nel, yarrow, goldthread, star flower,fireweed, mountain tea, sug
. The Granite monthly : a magazine of literature, history and state progress . guests as memorials of theirvisits. A ledgy crest is by no means char-acteristic of this mountain, thoughthe eastern wall of the old stonehouse is buttressed by quite an out-crop of shelving rocks, weatheredand scarred; and broken rocks aboundin spots. Neither is it bald as itsname would indicate (Moosi, bald, posed,—wood and sheep sorrel, poke,goldenrod, asters, buttercups (twoor three inches high), mustard, Clin-tonia, snakehead, everlasting, low cor-nel, yarrow, goldthread, star flower,fireweed, mountain tea, sugar plum,skunk currant (which emitted sostrong an odor we inquired if Mephi-tis Mephitica was a resident), straw-berry, blueberry, raspberry, moun-tain cranberries (served very accept-ably on the table every day of our P ~r*|. ?• • , , ... ? - 4 ?. G r e 9 n a n th Low and Auke, a place — bald-place) forit has an unusual amount of soil foran altitude of nearly five thousandfeet. • Wiry grass, rather than gray rocks,furnishes the prevailing color to thesurface, but in July the Greenlandsandwort, an Alpine species, is soabundant, Moosilauke is as whitewith its blossoms as some meadowsare with bluets. The list of plants of this region, aswe collected them on our rambles,was not so meagre as might be sup- stay), yellow and white cinquefoils(the latter being another Alpineplant), false Solomons seal andtwisted-stalk. The day I announced the discov-ery of rose-twistfoot (as I hadbeen taught in youth to call Strepto-pus roseus), the name was misunder-stood by my nearest neighbor at thetable, and she turned to her com-panion, saying: Roosters foot? Iwonder if that was not the plant wenoticed. I believe it was, for it didhave a leaf shaped something like a A TIP-TOP EXPERIENCE ON MOOSILAUKE. 20I roosters foot, and I did not d
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