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The ground is littered with fallen trunks that lie crossed and recrossed like storm-lodged wheat; and besides this close forest of pines, the rich moraine soil supports a luxuriant growth of ribbon-leaved grasses bromus, triticum, calamagrostis, agrostis, etc., which rear their handsome spikes and panicles above your waist.
Along the edges of the meadows beneath the pines and throughout the greater part of the Valley tall ribbon-leaved grasses grow in abundance, chiefly bromus, triticum and agrostis. In October the nights are frosty, and then the meadows at sunrise, when every leaf is laden with crystals, are a fine sight.
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