Rbodora 
JOURNAL OF 
THE NEW ENGLAND BOTANICAL CLUB 
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A SUMMER’S BOTANIZING IN EASTERN MAINE AND 
WESTERN NEW BRUNSWICK. 
M. L. FERNALD AND K. M. WIEGAND. 
Part I. GENERAL NOTES ON THE SUMMER TRIP. 
WHEN the time came for the final arrangement of our summer 
plans in 1909 we abandoned various ambitious schemes of going 
with our families to wild and unmapped northern regions and cast 
about for an area nearer home where we could combine a cool climate 
and a comparatively unexplored flora. This combination was finally 
discovered when we hit upon the easternmost section of Washington 
County, Maine. Although no regions of New England have been 
botanically explored with detail sufficient to preclude the possibility 
of discovering novelties or extending known ranges, we had a reason- 
ably good superficial knowledge of the flora of the western half of the 
coast of Washington County from collections made at various points 
as far east as Machias and Cutler; but from east of Cutler the largest 
collections of vascular plants available were a small series of speci- 
mens gathered at Lubec in 1828 by that pioneer botanist in many New 
England regions, William Oakes, and a more representative collection 
made about North Lubec in the summer of 1902 by Miss Kate Furbish. 
In Hovey’s Magazine, in 1844, appeared “Some Remarks on the 
Botany, &c., of Eastport, Me., and its Vicinity," by “X,” who, 
however, confined his remarks chiefly to an enthusiastic account of 
the astonishing fertility of the soil, the wide fame of Eastport potatoes, 
and a discussion of the planted trees and shrubs. This account of 
Eastport, which gives little detail about the native vascular plants, 
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