1900] Harvey, — Pogonia pendula in Maine 211 
The thoroughly northern character of the flora made a hasty visit 
tantalizing; one felt that a longer stay might be rewarded by some of 
the curious forms that Rosenvinge has found at Greenland, many of 
them growing on host plants that abound here. 
POGONIA PENDULA IN MAINE. 
Le Roy Harris HARVEY. ` 
WHILE on an extended collecting trip along the western border of 
Maine, in the fall of 1899, the writer in company with a botanical 
friend, climbed Frost Mountain for the purpose of obtaining specimens 
of the maiden-hair spleenwort, Asplenium Trichomanes, L.; the ebony 
spleenwort, Asplenium ebeneum, Ait., and the rusty Woodsia, Woodsza 
Llvensis, R. Br. 
Frost Mountain, having an altitude of about 3600 feet, is situated 
in the town of Brownfield, forty miles northwest of Portland, ten miles 
south of Fryeburg, and five miles from the New Hampshire line. 
The ascent was made on the southwestern slope. Nearly half way 
up we passed through a ravine-like depression covered with hard 
growth, mostly beech. As we mounted the further slope of this 
ravine, we simultaneously uttered exclamations of surprise, and 
hastened forward to examine more closely our find, which we readily 
recognized as Pogonia pendula. Growing in an isolated clump, were 
four specimens — three well developed and one aborted. The plants 
were firmly rooted in a bed of leaf mould over granite formation. 
Two of the plants were carefully dug up for our herbaria, and the 
others left, as we hoped thus permanently to maintain the locality. 
We searched very carefully over the immediate slope, but to no avail. 
'  'This is the first time the nodding pogonia, Pogonia pendula, Lindl. 
has been reported east and north of Lake Winnipiseogee, N. H., and 
is the fourth authentic locality in the New England states. 
I append the following data, which have been kindly put at my 
disposal by Mr. Emile F. Williams of Boston, who is compiling a 
check-list of our New England orchids. 
Mr. Williams has examined, to date, the following herbaria — 
Gray; Brown University; W. P. Rich, J. R. Churchill, C. E. Faxon, 
. Boston; G. G. Kennedy, Milton; Walter Deane and M. L. Fernald, 
Cambridge ; C. H. Bissell, Southington, Conn.; J. F. Collins and W. W. 
