202 Rhodora [AvGUsT 
THE Dwarr MISTLETOE IN Connecticut.— While studying the 
flora in a wooded sphagnum swamp bordering Spectacle Ponds, 
Kent, Connecticut, in company with Mr. E. H. Austin, the so-called 
* witches'-brooms ” on both black spruce and tamarack trees attracted 
us to an investigation. 
These conspicuous growths occur rather sparingly on the older 
trees, here 20 to 25 feet high, and examination displayed Arceuthobium 
pusillum Peck in abundance among their branches. On normal and 
vigorous shoots adjoining these were still other colonies, in not a 
few of which the parasites were as numerous as on those forming 
* brooms." 
Several branches of the spruce bore from 18 to 22 plants of the 
mistletoe within one inch, a number but little exceeding that on à 
like area upon one branch of tamarack. In the latter species, how- 
ever, while the “brooms” were similar in size they were less branched 
and usually bore scarcely two per cent of the number common to the 
other host. 
Plants upon the spruce were more slender, with longer internodes, 
and varied in color through dull yellow to chestnut or purple-brown, 
which became much darker in drying. On the tamarack they were 
brighter in color, varying through more bronzed or golden tints to 
somewhat olive-brown which is appreciably retained in the more 
robust dried state. 
No deleterious results were apparent from this parasitism, although 
from other influences neither host seems to attain more than moder- 
ate size or length of life. 
The altitude of this station is about 1200 feet, and at this time, 
May 11, 1903, signs of flowers or fruit were wanting.— E. H. Eames, 
Bridgeport, Connecticut. 
MEETING OF THE JOSSEELYN SOCIETY. 
Dora H. Movurrow, SEC. 
THE Josselyn Botanical Society of Maine held its Annual Meeting 
and Field Day from June 29th to July 3rd at Skowhegan on the 
banks of the Kennebec. ‘There was an unusually large attendance of 
the members, whose enthusiasm and persistence, aided by the fair 
