IRbobora 



JOURNAL OF 



THE NEW ENGLAND BOTANICAL CLUB 



Vol. 4 February, 1902 No. 38 



THE MAINE COAST AT CUTLER. 

 G. G. Kennedy. 



The flora of Mt. Desert has been so well described in Rand <S; 

 Red field's volume that the list there given might be considered 

 sufficient for the whole seashore of Maine, but to the eastward lies 

 an almost unexplored territory with a more boreal flora and cold 

 winds and waters. 



The innumerable islands, bays and rivers of the Maine coast do 

 not extend eastward beyond Machias Hay, and from this point to 

 Quoddy Head, a distance of about 25 miles, we have a bold shore 

 with a full east exposure, open ocean, treacherous currents, and much 

 fog. It is the entrance to the Bay of Fundy and from fifteen to 

 twenty miles off shore lies Grand Manan Island with its cliffs and 

 fog. The Bay of Fundy, some sixty miles wide at its mouth, extends 

 one hundred and fifty miles northeasterly, and uninfluenced by 

 warmer currents from the southern ocean areas, maintains its well- 

 earned reputation as a cold wet sea. 



This twenty-five miles of coast is shared by three townships, Cutler, 

 Trescott and Lubec, or to take the shore designations proper for 

 such a sea-faring community, Little River, Bailey's Mistake and 

 Quoddy Head; Lubec village lying on the narrow strait north of 

 Quoddy Head. 



A short account of the flora of the region as observed during three 

 days spent in July last at Cutler on Little River, may be interesting 

 to the readers of Rhodora. 



Little River is a small fiord just east of Little Machias Bay with a 

 sailing area of less that a mile from Little River Light. Its situation 

 is 44 40' N. and 67 15' W. of Greenwich. The village of Cutler 

 is on this fiord and its picturesque beauty has been described in 

 several magazine articles on the coast of Maine. 



