192 Rhodora [September 



TENTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THK JOSSELYN 

 BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF MAINE. 



Dora H. Moulton, Secretary. 



A PARTY of twenty-six enthusiastic members and friends of the 

 Josselyn Botanical Society of Maine entered the St. John Valley on 

 July 6th, for four days work along the gravelly shores and steep 

 banks of the river, and among the adjacent bogs and hills. The 

 Society received most courteous treatment at Hotel Dickey, Fort 

 Kent, where everything possible was done for the comfort of the 

 party. The evenings were spent comparing and discussing the 

 collections of the day. On Friday evening Mr. M. L. Fernald 

 delivered an address on " The Flora of the St. John Valley " ; and Dr. 

 George Upham Hay, of St. John, New Brunswick, spoke of the 

 fungi collected, and extended greetings from the Botanical Club of 

 Canada, of which society he is the president. Most favorable weather 

 made it possible to explore a distance of practically thirty miles 

 along the banks of the river. Everywhere, on roadsides, riverbanks 

 and open places, the blue of Vicia Cracca, L., and Campanula totundi- 

 folia, L., was most conspicuous, and with t^e yellow of the butter- 

 cups and the white of the daisies, made clearly defined bands or 

 ribbons of color bordering the roads. 



This region is rich in local plants, and among such species were 

 noted Astragalus alpinus^ L., Tatiaccium Huronensc, Nutt., Casiilleja 

 pallida, var. septentriotialis. Gray., Hedysarum boreale, Nutt., Vaccin- 

 turn caespitosum^ Michx., Carex castanca, VVahl., Graphcphorum melt- 

 coidcum, Desv., Equisctum palustrc, L., and E. variegatum, Schl., 

 growing in scattered patches over the drier gravelly shores. Artem- 

 isia Canadensis , Michx., was seen on the beach at St. Hilaire, New 

 Brunswick, but not noticed on the Maine shore. In the deep wet 

 sands Utricularia intermedia, Hayne, flowered abundantly. Here 

 also, everywhere on the wet beaches, grew Primula Mistassinica^ 

 Michx., and Tofieldia glutinosa, Willd., while back, in what might be 

 termed the river meadows, were an abundance of Ajiemotie Cana- 

 densis, L., and large patches of Angelica atropurpurca, L. On the 

 steep slopes were seen Hahfiia d(i/lexa, Gx'iseh. , Pcdicularis Eurbishiae, 

 Wats., and Clematis verficillaris, DC. In springy spots was found 

 Myosotis laxa Lehm., previously unknown in the valley. Back from 



