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JOURNAL OF 
THE NEW ENGLAND BOTANICAL CLUB 
Vol. 1 May, 1899 No. 5 
THE VERMONT BOTANICAL CLUB. 
L. R. Jones. 
THE Vermont Botanical Club held its fourth annual winter meeting 
during the last.week of January, and all who have attended this as well 
as the field meetings of last July, now realize that the Vermont Club is 
assured a long, useful and energetic life. 
On July 4, 1895, a half-dozen Vermont botanists met by appoint- 
ment at a lumber camp near the spruce-covered summit of Stratton 
Mountain, with two objects in mind. Of these the first was to explore 
the Torrey meadows, a large tract of natural meadow land which lies at 
an elevation of some 2,000 feet, and is especially rich in rare sedges ; 
the second was to form an association which *might promote friendly 
intercourse among the students of botany in Vermont” and “secure 
a more thorough knowledge of the flora of the state." In both of 
these objects their success was beyond their hopes. 
The club there formed now has rro active members. The organ- 
ization is of the simplest possible kind. Each year two meetings are 
held, a field meeting of two or three days in July and a winter meeting 
of two days in January or February. The officers of the club are a 
president, vice-president, and secretary. There are no fees and no 
treasurer. The president since the organization of the club has been 
President Brainerd of Middlebury College, and Cyrus G. Pringle has 
been the vice-president since the second meeting. The officers are 
authorized to *prepare the program, including papers and discussions 
for the winter meeting, and to ere the time and place of the 
summer field excursion.” 
The plan in these summer trips has been to combine a pleasant 
outing with profitable botanical explorations, a thing easily accom- 
plished in Vermont. Two of the last three of these excursions have 
been to Mount Mansfield and Smuggler's Notch, the third to Snake 
