220 Rhodora [ DECEMBER 
The country surrounding Lake Maranacook is exceedingly beautiful 
in,its scenic character, and intensely interesting botanically. The wood- 
lands are rich with the accumulation of vegetable mold in which the 
ferns and other plants luxuriate. On the Winthrop side there are some 
very dense cedar swamps which I did not get time to explore. The 
altitude of the lake itself is five hundred feet above sea level, and that 
of the surrounding country of course still greater. 
PLANTS FROM THE EASTERN SLOPE OF MT. EQUINOX. 
Mary A. Dav. 
IN the year 1898 my sister and I spent a large part of the summer 
in Manchester, Vermont. This place is situated in the southwestern 
part of the state, at the base of Mt. Equinox, and is surrounded by 
mountains of the Equinox and Green Mountain ranges. The soil is 
sandy, with limestone and marble ledges on the mountains. We were 
located on the eastern slope of Mt. Equinox, at an elevation of about 
twelve hundred feet, while the mountain itself rose to nearly four 
thousand feet. In the vicinity we made a collection of plants, of which 
some had not before been recorded from Vermont, and others, although 
reported from a few stations, appear to be rare and local in the state. 
The.collection numbered about thirty-two hundred specimens, which 
were determined at the Gray Herbarium, and distributed in sets to the 
leading herbaria of this country. ‘The forms marked with an asterisk 
are not reported from Vermont in Perkins' latest catalogue. 
Among the rarer plants by roadside and in open fields near the high- 
way we found * Brassica juncea, Cosson, Erysimum chetranthoides, L., 
Geum strictum, Ait., * Prunus avium, L., * Agrimonia Brittoniana, Bick- 
nell, *4. hirsuta, Bicknell, *Galium palustre, L., Aster ericoides, var. 
Pringlet, Gray, A. tardiflorus, L., Prenanthes alba, L.,* Solidago canaden- 
sis, var. procera, Gray, Solidago patula, Muhl.,* Lophanthus scrophulariae- 
folius, var. mollis, Fernald, Phryma leptostachya, L., *Polygonum 
1 LOPHANTHUS SCROPHULARIAEFOLIUS, Benth., var. mollis, Fernald, n. var. 
“Stems densely soft-tomentose ; leaves pale beneath with dense short tomentulose 
hairs, less pubescent above.— Dry thicket, Dorset, Vermont, July 20, 1898, Mary 
A. Day, no. 332; Cincinnati, Ohio, 1839, 7. G. Lea; Marion County, Illinois, M. S. 
Bebb ; Tllinois, without definite station, S. B. Mead. — In its pale color and dense 
pubescence very different from the greener, sparingly pubescent Z. scrophulariaefolius, 
and, when compared with the extreme form of that plant, appearing specifically dis- 
tinct. Many specimens, however, show such intermediate characters that the two 
plants can be treated only as varieties of one species.” 
