232 Rhodora [SEPTEMBER 
NOTES ON SOME TREES AND SHRUBS OF WESTERN 
CHESHIRE COUNTY, NEW HAMPSHIRE. 
M. L. FERNALD. 
THE past three summers have afforded an opportunity to study 
the vegetation of a portion of southwestern New Hampshire drained 
by the Connecticut River and its tributaries, the Ashuelot and the 
Cold Rivers. The principal observations have been made in the 
course of short walking or longer driving excursions within a radius 
of about ten miles from Alstead Centre. Here have been noted very 
many species quite unfamiliar to one whose knowledge of the New 
Hampshire flora is confined to the White Mountains, the dry upland 
of eastern Cheshire County, or the coastal area. The forests of 
western Cheshire County are essentially deciduous, though occasional 
spruce or fir swamps occur and white and pitch pine are found in 
their proper habitats. In the main, however, the forests are com- 
posed of southern rather than northern trees; and several species 
which rarely reach eastern or central New Hampshire are here con- 
spicuous elements in the landscape. 
In the following notes are recorded such trees and UM of this - 
region as seem to the writer of sufficiently restricted range in New 
England to be of special interest. Note is also made of a few species 
generally common throughout eastern New England but apparently 
wanting or very rare in the southwestern corner of New Hampshire. 
Pinus resinosa, Ait. Very rare and scattered. 
P. rigida, Mill. Abundant on the Drewsville sand-plain and on 
the lower slopes of Fall Mt., Walpole. Scattered individuals reach 
an altitude of 340 m. (1100 ft.) at Alstead Centre. 
Larix americana, Michx. Only cultivated specimens noted in the 
region. 
Picea rubra, Link. The only spruce seen. Scattered in upland 
woods and occasionally forming forests. 
Abies balsamea, Mill. Often planted, but native only in upland 
woods and swamps at about 460 m. (1500 ft.) alt., near Gustin 
Pond, Marlow. 
Thuja occidentalis, L. Only cultivated specimens seen. 
Juniperus communis, L., var. canadensis, Loud. Very rare. One 
small station noted on a hillside near Keene. 
