1902] Blanchard, — Vermont and New Hampshire Plants — I 129 



(see Rhodora iii. 171, June, 1901); and we may hope that the 

 plant will turn up elsewhere in the northeastern provinces of Canada. 

 At the Grand Discharge it was found in thin soil among bushes 

 near the high water mark of the river. 



The water of Lake St. John seemed to be last August unusually 

 low, nearly twenty feet below the level of the spring floods. On 

 the sandy bottoms of small bays, and on muddy shores of islands 

 thus exposed, there occurred an abundance of /uncus sub tilts, E. 

 Meyer, (see Rhodora, iii. 228, September, 1901). It grows 

 sometimes in broad dense mats with crimson foliage and numerous 

 flowers ; at other times in colonies of single individuals more strongly 

 repent, with green foliage and fewer flowers. It did not remind me 

 at all of /uncus peloearpus, which also occurs in this region ; it is 

 surely a well-marked species. At Lake St. John it was in such 

 select company as Subularia aquatica, L., Littorella lacustris, L., 

 Ranunculus Flammula, L., var. reptans, E. Meyer. It is of interest 

 to note that the plant was first observed by Michaux at Chicoutimi, 

 fifty miles further down the Saguenay River. — Ezra Brainerd 

 Middlebury, Vermont. 



SOME VERMONT AND NEW HAMPSHIRE PLANTS IN 

 THE MIDDLE CONNECTICUT VALLEY, — I. 



W. H. Blanchard. 



The territory which the writer has examined somewhat thoroughly 

 is the eastern half of Westminster and Putney and the village of 

 Bellows Falls in Vermont, and in New Hampshire that part of Wal- 

 pole which is adjacent to Bellows Falls and the northern part of 

 Westminster. The whole of Windham County is in his field, how- 

 ever. Readers interested in this region may well examine in con- 

 nection with these notes the article by Mr. Fernald in Rhodora, iii. 

 232. Conclusions may be drawn later regarding the region. In 

 this article trees and shrubs only are considered. 



Menispermum canadensis L. Moonseed. Two stations on the bank 

 of the Connecticut River in Westminster. Reported but once north 

 of this, namely by Dr. Barrows at Claremont on both sides of the 

 Connecticut. 



