218 Rhodora [ NoveMBER 
weather conditions prevented our doing so. In all, three stations 
were discovered for this plant. These are of especial interest as the 
only other New England station was Mt. Kineo, Moosehead Lake, 
Maine. Although I collected on Mt. Kineo about three weeks later 
and made a point of looking for this plant no trace of it was found 
but I have since been informed by Dr. Kennedy that his specimens 
were found at the eastern end of the cliffs at a spot I did not reach. 
From our observations it would seem likely that the plant may be 
found about the lighthouses still farther to the southwest along the 
outer points of the Maine Coast. 
Boston SOCIETY or NATURAL HISTORY. 
NOTEWORTHY PLANTS COLLECTED AT ROQUE 
BLUFFS, MAINE, IN 1907. 
C. H. KNOWLTON. 
Dvnixa the past summer I spent several days collecting in Washing- 
ton County, Maine, mostly in the township of Roque Bluffs. This 
lies on the coast, 16 miles from Cutler, and 22 from Mt. Desert. The 
summer climate there 1s cool and very wet, because the Greenland 
current washes the shore and causes frequent fogs. 
The coast is lined with cliffs of voleanic rock, broken by occasional 
sea-caves, estuaries and beaches. In many places heavy spruce woods 
come down to the edge of the sea-cliffs, with such typical plants of the , 
northern mountain woods as Solidago macrophylla, Pursh, and Aspi- 
dium spinulosum (O. F. Mueller) Sw. var. dilatatum (Hoffm.) Hook. 
forma anadenium B. L. Robinson. 
Back from the cliffs are numerous and extensive peat-bogs, covered 
‘with Picea nigra Link., Eriophorum callitrix Chamisso, Smilacina 
trijolia Desf., Empetrum nigrum L., Rubus Chamaemorus 1., Vaccin- 
ium Oxycoccus L., and more common bog plants. 
I have not fully explored the region, and the estuaries in particular 
will probably reward further search. 'The following species already 
collected, however, seem worthy of mention. 
Elymus mollis Trin, is à common beach grass, growing in the same 
sandy soil as Ammophila arundinacea, Hostk.,— but not so abundant. 
