110 Rhodora [JUNE 
collected, the later ones not ready to collect, and the clumps of tagged 
Crataegus and Rubus between flowering and fruiting, botanizing 
became arduous and we found ourselves lingering too long on the 
blueberry barrens, since, in order to get small returns in * different" 
things, we were forced to cover many miles of hard and comparatively 
sterile country. So it was decided that this was the favorable time 
for the two men of the party to make a trip they had talked of, up the 
St. John and into *the Aroostook," at the same time giving the ladies 
an uninterrupted week for reading, driving, and picnicking without 
the responsibility of washing the roots of our specimens whenever we 
chanced to bring in full boxes. Accordingly we went by the New 
Brunswick Southern Railway from St. Stephen to St. John through a 
coastal region much of which suggested conditions like those about 
Lubec. On the morning of August 6th we reached the picturesque 
camp of Dr. G. U. Hay at Ingleside, on the St. John in the town of 
Westfield, about four miles below the mouth of the Nerepis River. 
Here we were cordially received by Dr. and Mrs. Hay in the camp and 
wild garden already known to several readers of Ruopora. We 
were very obviously in the St. John Valley, for in the rich alluvium 
of the river were many plants familiar from above St. Francis to Wood- 
stock.— Calamagrostis neglecta (Ehrh.) Gaertn., Meyer & Scherbius, 
Salix lucida Muhl., var. intonsa Fernald, S. pellita Anders. and 5. 
coactilis Fernald, Thalictrum confine Fernald and Tanacetum huronense 
Nutt.— with several unknown or rare on the Upper St. John, such as 
Salix nigra Marsh., Fraxinus pennsylvanica Marsh., and Stachys 
palustris L. A short distance from his camp Dr. Hay showed us a 
fine specimen of Acer rubrum L., var. tridens Wood (noted below), 
and in short walks in the neighborhood other notable plants were seen 
— Panicum tennesseense Ashe, P. implicatum Scribner, Glyceria laxa 
Scribner and Lycopodium sabinaefolium Willd. 
One afternoon and evening were given to a sail up the lower reaches 
of the St. John and the quiet winding channel of the Nerepis River. 
The meadows along this stream were luxuriant to a degree and we 
longed for more time than was available to explore them. Shoulder- 
high stood a dense thicket of Scirpus pedicellaris Fernald, S. cyperinus 
(L.) Kunth, var. pelius Fernald, Zizania aquatica L., Sparganium 
eurycarpum Engelm. and other marsh plants not generally known 
from so far east; and in deep water, forming broad dense islands 
nearly covered at high tide but rising at low tide a meter above the 
