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the fact. that Leucodon sciuroides is probably more common in New 

 England than had been supposed and it has been recently found in 

 Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont, though not before, so far as I 

 know, from Massachusetts. Racomitrium aciculare, Pogonatum alpinum 

 and urnigerum and some of the others are not of common occurrence 

 in the state. Scapania undulata presented a purplish form possibly 

 corresponding with var. purpurea, Nees. The list is by no means an 

 exhaustive one but shows something of the possibilities of more care- 

 ful observation and study in a locality which has been somewhat 

 neglected. 



Mr. Pleasant, Pennsylvania. 



SOME PLANTS FROM PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND. 



J. R. Churchill. 



It would be hard to tell why Prince Edward Island was finally 

 selected for our midsummer migration in 1901. The attractions were 

 not exclusively botanical. Indeed I had been warned that the whole 

 island was cleared and under cultivation, apparently to such an extent 

 that there was no room there for wild flowers; and it was quite 

 plain that my hungry botany-box must be filled with those plants only 

 which, whether wanted or not, follow mankind and intrude upon his 

 fields and gardens. I became quite convinced that my botanical fare 

 would be limited to weeds and to the bold denizens of hedgerows, 

 cultivated ground, roadsides and waste places. But there were 

 alluring reports of a cool dry and bracing climate, of a most com- 

 fortable boarding-house at Tracadie Beach on the North shore, of 

 freedom from fogs, and of the salt sea pleasantly wanned for com- 

 fortable bathing upon the sandy shoals in the bright sun. 



Now even a botanist loves to bathe, provided the water is not too 

 frigid; and he is not superior to the seductions of a good table and 

 house; and I reasoned that even weeds, if new and fresh, are 

 attractive and interesting, and moreover are essential to the complete 

 furnishing of every well-regulated herbarium. 



And so it came about that, on the evening of July 19, I landed at 

 Summerside, and put up for two days at the Clifton Hotel, the best 

 of the three modest inns of the quaint little village. 



