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Q. ilicifolia, Wang. Scrub Black Oak. Around Bellows Falls on 

 both sides of the river. It is quite likely that this is its northern 

 limit. Reported at Brattleboro. 



Q. prinoides, Willd. Abundant on the west face of Fall Mountain 

 opposite Bellows Falls. None of this species has been found on 

 the Vermont side of the river. 



Castanea sativa, Mill., var. Americana, Gray. Chestnut. Grows 

 in spots only, never scattered. These spots are few and near the 

 Connecticut River. There is only one of them between Bellows 

 Falls and Brattleboro. The northern limit of the species is reported 

 at Claremont, New Hampshire, and Windsor, Vermont. 



Populus deltoides, Marsh. Necklace Poplar. Grows close to the 

 Connecticut River. Flint reports it as occurring no farther north 

 than Westmoreland, but there are scattered trees as far north as Dr. 

 GoodelPs orchard opposite Bellows Falls. Here there is a stamin- 

 ate tree nearly five feet in diameter. 



Pinus resinosa, Ait. Norway Pine. Drewsville Plain, Walpole, is 

 the only locality where this species has been seen. 



Juniperus communis, L., var. Canadensis, Loud. Plants covering a 

 space from two to thirty feet in diameter occur quite frequently in 

 Putney and Westminster. The species constantly appears in new 

 places. 



Juniperus Virginiana, L. Red Cedar. Formerly scarce, but trees 

 are now springing up in most of the pastures of Putney and West- 

 minster, although as yet dwarfish. 

 Westminster, Vermont. 



The Seneca Snakeroot in Maine. — Several years ago Miss 

 Kate Furbish informed me that she had examined undoubted 

 material of Polygala Senega collected by Miss Electra C. Teague at 

 Caribou, Maine. Upon this report the record of the species as a 

 Maine plant has rested for ten years, although a specimen from 

 Aroostook Falls, New Brunswick, in the same valley with Caribou, 

 has long been in the Gray Herbarium. In September, last, while 

 botanizing upon the gravelly terraces of the Aroostook River, at Fort 

 Fairfield, Maine, I found the species locally in great abundance. 

 Examination showed the plant to extend over a large strip of undis- 

 turbed terrace below the village, but to disappear as soon as the 

 cultivated land was reached. It is thus probable that, prior to the 



