1909] | Chamberlain,— Meeting of the Josselyn Society 179 
MEETING ОЕ THE JossELYN BorawicAL SocrETY.— The fifteenth 
annual meeting of the Josselyn Botanical Society of Maine was held 
at Peaks Island, Portland, Maine, from June 27th to July 2nd, 1909, 
with about twenty persons in attendance. Excursions were made to 
Old Orchard, Pine Point, Falmouth, Chebeag Island, and the Grand 
'Trunk Railway yards in Portland, besides shorter trips to various 
parts of Peaks Island. Upon these trips many interesting species of 
plants were found, several being previously unknown from the region. 
On Tuesday evening Prof. M. L. Fernald of Cambridge addressed 
the Society upon the subject of “The New England Flora of the Future, 
or Changes in our Flora due to the Destruction of Forests,” illustrating 
the address by specimens of the plants mentioned. On Thursday 
evening Prof. Fernald gave an informal talk upon some species of 
plants recently added to the state flora, showing specimens of the 
plants themselves. 
The following list represents the more noteworthy species collected 
during the meeting. Typha angustifolia L., Carex crinita Lam., var. 
gynandra Schwein. & Torr., and var. minor Boott, C. Michauxiana 
Boeckl., C. salina Wahl., var. cuspidata Wahl., Sisyrinchium gram- 
ineum Curtis at Great Chebeag Island; Panicum Werneri Scribn., 
Thalictrum polygamum Muhl., var. hebecarpum Fernald, Barbarea 
verna Asch., Potentilla recta L. at Falmouth; Carex muricata L., 
Rubus alleghaniensis Porter, var. calycosus Fernald, R. idaeus L., 
Hyoscyamus niger L. at Peaks Island; Oxalis stricta L. at Pine Point; 
Rumex mexicanus Meisn., Chenopodium leptophyllum Nutt., Amar- 
anthus blitoides Wats., Coronopus didymus L., Neslia paniculata Desv., 
Tragopogon pratensis L. at Portland.— EDWARD B. CHAMBERLAIN. 
HABENARIA DILATATA, AN OMITTED Recorp.— The following 
record should be added to the list of Orchidaceae published in Кно- 
poRA XI, 76: 
Habenaria dilatata (Pursh) Gray. “A peaty meadow on left hand 
of road to South Reading [Wakefield], perhaps a mile from Stoneham 
depot" (Wm. Boott, no date. The specimen is in Gray Herb.); 
Reading and Stoneham (according to Dame & Collins, Fl. Middlesex 
Co.,106. 1888); Lexington (according to Baldwin, Orchids of N. E., 
137. 1884). 
