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1910] Fernald and Wiegand,— Botanizing in Maine 113 
huronense Nutt., with ashy plumose foliage and large golden button- 
like heads. 
On the broad river-beach below the Canadian Pacific station Hedy- 
sarum boreale Nutt. was in fine fruit, with an occasional lingering 
raceme of crimson flowers, and Prunus pumila L., which formed an 
extensive carpet was tantalizingly near ripeness — just green enough to 
be still inedible. In the thicket Thalictrum confine Fernald! was 
already over-ripe, but Trisetum melicoides (Michx.) Vasey and 
Scutellaria Churchilliana Fernald were in fine condition, and in the 
shade of the thicket were Equisetum pratense Ehrh. (formerly known 
from the upper St. John and the Kennebec valleys), Viola Selkirkii, 
Pursh, always local enough to be interesting, and Pyrola asartfolia 
Michx. in good fruit. Our walk in this direction took us nearly to the 
talus slope where Astragalus eucosimus Robinson abounds at its only 
New England station, but the already long-ignored dinner-bell and 
the plans for the afternoon forced us to turn back. 
The northern bank of the river, always fruitful in good things, 
maintained its established reputation for Juncus balticus Willd., 
var. littoralis Engelm. and Triglochin maritima L. (two maritime 
species here more than 100 miles from the nearest salt water), Poten- 
tilla arguta Pursh, Polygala Senega L., &c.; and we found in the 
rich thicket two species which had not before been known so far north 
in Maine,— Agrimonia gryposepala Wallr. and Osmorhiza longistylis 
(Torr.) DC. 
The last day of the Fort Fairfield trip was devoted to the cold cliffs 
and springy banks about the Aroostook Falls and the gorge of the 
river, which lie wholly in New Brunswick. ‘The Aroostook Falls 
have long been known to some readers of RHODORA as the most 
picturesque portion of the river system and a region as rich in botanical 
as in scenic interest. It was, therefore, a bitter disappointment, after 
driving out from Fort Fairfield along the northern bank of the river 
to find the great wooded slope, which formerly extended from the road 
to the Falls and where various comparatively southern plants — 
Cynoglossum boreale Fernald, Scrophularia leporella Bicknell, and 
Triosteum aurantiacum Bicknell — have been found, was now a stretch 
of charred stumps and black skeleton-trees, burnt rocks and ashes 
as far as the eye could see. The fire had extended quite to the edge 
1 All the eastern material which in Rnopona, ii. 232, 233 (1900) was referred to T. 
occidentale Gray proves upon further acquaintance to be T. confine. 
