Rhodora 
JOURNAL OF 
THE NEW ENGLAND BOTANICAL CLUB 
i 
Vol. 3 June, rgor No. 30 
A BOTANICAL EXCURSION TO MOUNT 
KATAHDIN. 
JosepH R. CHURCHILL. 
(Plates 25-31.) 
DuniNG the first half of July, 1900, five members! of the New Eng- 
land Botanical Club visited Mount Katahdin, Maine. ‘The mountain 
was a new collecting ground for all of the party, and some account of 
our exploration and collections will perhaps be interesting to the 
readers of RHODORA. 
Twenty years ago Charles E. Hamlin communicated to the Ap- 
palachian Mountain Club a paper? describing Mount Katahdin, its 
infrequent but notable visitors, and the four possible routes by which 
they and others reached the mountain. The route taken by us, which 
was in great part the fourth one described by him, has since been 
much shortened by the extension of the railroad from Brownville 
through Stacyville, and doubtless other routes have been rendered 
more available since he wrote. Nevertheless Mount Katahdin is still 
surrounded by an immense wilderness, traversed only by lakes and 
rivers and by roads or trails, which in summer at least, are too rough 
to attract the tourist; and Mr. Hamlin’s observations are true to-day 
as then, that the mountain “is so inaccessible that practically it is 
remote even to New Englanders. It is probably true that a greater 
! Dr. George G. Kennedy, of Milton, Mass.; Merritt L. Fernald, of the Gray 
Herbarium, Cambridge, Mass. ; J. Franklin Collins, of the Botanical Department 
of Brown University, Providence, R. I.; and Emile F. Williams and Joseph R. 
Churchill, of Boston, Mass. 
? Appalachia, ii. 306. 
