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the mouth of the Meduxenkeag farther east, but with very limited 
time it was useless to attempt to locate it, so it was decided to drive 
westward along the river to New Limerick and to take the west-bound 
afternoon train there. Even then we were forced to limit our real 
stops to two. The first was in a typical Arbor Vitae swamp near 
Nickerson Lake where nothing remarkable was found, but we got 
excellent fruiting material of Carex vaginata Tausch, Cypripedium 
hirsutum Mill., Valeriana uliginosa (T. & G.) Rydberg, and other 
typical plants of such swamps. The other stop was at a point where 
the road approaches a muddy flat of the river which is there expanded 
into a broad quiet pool. This stop was made primarily to gather pond 
weeds, but in crossing the flat we were surprised to find ourselves walk- 
ing on an extensive carpet of a tiny-fruited Galium which had been 
familiar to one of us on a marly shore in Gaspé County, Quebec, the 
little plant recently described by us as G. brevipes. In the river with 
Potamogeton zosterifolius Schumacher was an aquatic Sagittaria with 
small floating sagittate leaves and the pistillate flowers on slender pedi- 
cels 3-6 em. long. We were too early for fruiting material, but the 
young carpels resembled those of S. arifolia Nutt., which, however, 
has much shorter fruiting pedicels (0.5-2 em. long); and the foliage of 
the plant is so like that shown in the original plate of S. cuneata Shel- 
don as to suggest that with further knowledge S. cuneata and S. arifolia 
(which have recently been treated as identical) may prove to be dis- 
tinct. Returning to the carriage, we followed a spring-rivulet to its 
source and were delighted to find ourselves in a dense carpet of the 
pretty little semi-aquatic Ranunculus Purshit Richards. with golden 
flowers only 7 mm. broad. This was another plant familiar in Gaspé 
but heretofore unknown in New England, and, as may well be imag- 
ined, we were loath to leave such a spot and drive on to the train. But 
our glimpse, if only a fleeting one, was sufficient to convince us that a 
river-bank in Maine which, upon the most casual examination, yields 
Carex flava, var. gaspensis, Ranunculus Purshii and Galium brevipes 
is worthy an extensive exploration. In recent years many other spe- 
cies, common in Gaspé but formerly unknown or very local in Maine, 
have been found in Aroostook County,— such plants as Selaginella 
selaginoides (L.) Link, Carex vaginata Tausch, C. livida (Wahlenb.) 
Willd., Juncus stygius L., var. americanus Buchenau and Drosera lin- 
1 Ruopora, xii, 78 (1910). 
