1910] Fernald and Wiegand,— Botanizing in Maine 109 
of an esker in the Penobscot Valley, and the related O. pratensis (Small) 
Robinson occurs on the dyked marsh at Wells (Miss Furbish) and at 
Hartford (Parlin). Other stations for members of the group need 
verification. Whether or not such plants as Ranunculus delphini- 
folius, Oenothera cruciata, O. fruticosa, var. hirsuta, &c., are really 
isolated in the warmer situations about the heads of Passamaquoddy 
and Cobscook Bays and in the St. Croix Valley is of course futile at 
present to discuss; but the presence, a few miles back from the coast, 
of a more or less continuous series of sand plains and barrens (such as 
the famous blueberry barrens north and west of Northfield and similar 
barrens which stretch all the way from Columbia and Cherryfield to 
Spectacle Pond and beyond)! makes it probable that further exploration 
will show these plants to extend somewhat generally across southern 
Washington County. Here, at least, is an interesting problem for 
those who are situated where they can explore these plains and barrens. 
During our stay at Pembroke we were introduced to several food- 
plants which were new to our experience. The first of these was the 
“Waterberry,” Lonicera caerulea L., var. villosa (Michx.) T. & G., 
which we enjoyed in some abundance for three weeks before the ripen- 
ing of the Blueberries which Waterberries resemble both in appearance 
and taste. Another berry which was so abundant as to be quickly 
gathered was the Sugar Pear, Amelanchier canadensis, which was used 
in making delicious pies, in flavor resembling cherry pie. Baked 
Apple, Rubus Chamaemorus L., was an old friend of one of the party 
who had reveled in it on Table-top Mt., but wherever we saw it in 
Maine it fruited sparingly and was not up to the standard in flavor. 
We heard much of " Goose-tongue" as “greens” which grew along 
the seashores, so, supposing the name to be a modification of “ Goose- 
foot", brought in quantities of young Chenopodium album L. and 
Atriplex patula L., var. hastata (L.) Gray, which we already knew to 
be among the best of greens; but we were told that Goose-tongue was 
entirely. different, and not until we saw women walking into Lubec 
with baskets of the leaves of Plantago decipiens Barneoud were we 
able to identify it. The Plantago proved an acceptable spinach and 
one worth remembering in June and July. 
By the first of August, the season when the early plants were all 
! For detailed discussion see George H. Stone's “The Glacial Gravels of Maine", Mon. 
U.S. Geol. Surv. xxxiv. (1899), 
